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This is my book: See it?
It would be great if you'd go out and buy it, like right now. But first, let me tell you who it's for and what it's about.
If your children have recently left home, are about to leave home, have left home and returned, or some or all of the above, my book is for you.
It's really about reinventing yourself at a time when being a mother is no longer your first and primary and most important job. You'll always be a mother, of course, but you are opening a door and entering a new part of your life in which Motherhood isn't your one and only and all-consuming role. You may be a wife and a lover, a best friend and a sister, a daughter and a worker. All these other parts of you are longing to be encouraged and nourished-and now's your chance to let the New You flourish!
Here are some of the signs that you have entered a Happy Post-Motherhood Stage:
- You work late whenever you want.
- You rarely feel guilty.
- You revel in how quiet and clean your home or apartment feels.
- You spend at least 15 minutes a day talking to your partner.
- You watch what you want on television-or TiVo-for as long as you want.
Sound familiar? If not, don't worry. You'll get there.
My book illustrates the fact that freedom's just another word for no kids left at home, which is what Janis Joplin might have sung, if only she'd lived long enough.
Here's what else you'll read about if you buy my book:
- There is no Empty Nest Syndrome. Most mothers end up relatively content after their children leave home.
- The moms who do best are those who prepare for the last child's departure, during The Countdown Year.
- Most parents go through three stages of adjustment when the kids leave. There's Grief, then Relief, and finally, Joy.
- Many parents also need to readjust when a child or two returns home after leaving for the first time. Fifty percent of young American adults boomerang back home after leaving once.
- Being post-menopausal may actually make it easier for mothers to adjust to empty nesthood. In this sense, menopause is a good thing.
- After the children leave, marriage often changes dramatically. For half of couples, it gets better. But for one in ten, it gets much worse.
- The empty nest inspires some moms to become Sex Bunnies. But others become Sex Penguins.
- Parents without kids at home often enjoy Second-Act Careers. And their friendships blossom, too.
- This is a time to be More Than Mother. In fact, six in 10 empty nesters find that this is a time in which they become Thrivers, women who feel a greater sense of control than ever before.
To find out more-much more-you'll have to read BEYOND THE MOMMY YEARS.
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