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Empty Nest Syndrome | Dave and Ashley Willis

Name: Empty Nest Syndrome | Dave and Ashley Willis
Uploaded: 2023-03-31T16:00:31+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: A short YouTube conversation between Dave Willis and Ashley Willis about spouses entering the empty nest phase with differing emotional responses. Dave…

31 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube conversation between Dave Willis and Ashley Willis about spouses entering the empty nest phase with differing emotional responses. Dave raises the issue of one spouse feeling liberated while the other grieves; Ashley emphasizes that spouses are different people, grieving is normal, and it doesn't mean the marriage is failing.

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I would like to talk about the very real and fairly common dynamic of when each spouse enters into the empty nest season with very different perspectives about it. Like, you got one spouse super excited, thinking they're just going to be naked in the house all the time. The other spouse grieving, the children are gone. They're not happy. They don't want to celebrate. They can't be cheered up. How do you find common ground there?
I think what we have to remember is we're not the same people, you know, and it's okay. I mean, just being a man and a woman, you're different, you know, and so if one is grieving more than the other, that's not a bad thing. Just the fact that you're grieving your kids moving on doesn't mean that you have a bad marriage. You guys, I feel like I can tell that there's going to be parts of me that are grieving that just because it's a. It's a new season, you know, and so you're just. It's not that you're sad about moving into this new season. It's just that, like, wow, life went by so fast.