My Son Brings Me to Tears But I Don’t Want Him to Leave

I will never understand how a person could possibly feel two more opposite feelings simultaneously than the ones I feel being the mom of a high school senior. I am the mother to an only child who will graduating in June and reporting to college in August. 

I have never wanted to shove someone out of my house with great haste while also wanting to never let them leave…well, ever. And it is disorienting at best.

We have officially entered the season of “soiling the nest” in my house. I have ...