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# 9 empty nest questions

For couples

1. What are you looking forward to about the house being quieter?
2. What are you afraid we will find when the children are gone?
3. What did we used to do before children that we could do again?
4. Which of these do you want the next chapter to have?

   Options: Travel · A smaller house · New friends · A project together · More separate lives, kindly
5. Who are you, apart from being a parent?
6. What do you want our relationship with our grown children to be, and are we heading there?
7. What have the parenting years cost us that we should now repair?
8. What do you want to learn now that there is time?
9. What is a habit from busy years that we can finally drop?

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