My Kid’s Graduating from College and I’m Supposed to be Happy?

You survived the college move-in, the tearful parting, the long September until Parent’s Visiting Day. After the grief and shock to your system, you learned to adjust to the empty nest, and may have even discovered some positives you had never imagined: not having to stock the fridge to capacity, no more enormous laundry piles, a hallway devoid of random shoes and socks.

But the twinge of loss and longing was always there. You missed her terribly, wondered what she was really doing late at n...