Take Time to Grieve When You Drop Your Kids at College

I remember four years ago August very clearly. The focus was on my oldest daughter Carly going off to college. She was only going an hour away to Monmouth University, but I still felt sad that she wouldn’t be living at home anymore. Don’t get me wrong; I also felt happy, proud and excited as well, but grief was the emotion that I was feeling the strongest.

I truly needed someone to listen to me but had trouble finding people who would just listen. Instead, when I did share about my feelings o...