Each College Goodbye Gets Both Easier and Harder

“Please tell me it gets easier.”

For any parent who’s already sent one child off to college, this is our frantic plea after their first drop-off. We desperately long for a friend or family member to reassure us that YES! – with each successive goodbye, it will get easier, and there won’t be as many tears that fall, and we will never again feel that wretched pit of sorrow in our stomach.

Well, do you want the good news or the bad news first?

Just this morning, I watched my daughter depart from...