What do you do when your boomeranger takes baby steps that you know will lead to..........
After days of pacing, sleeping all day and being depressed and miserable the rest of the time awake, my Boomeranger has made a leap. She has rented a car and is driving to a city far from here, for a few days.
Maybe to find an apartment. Hopefully to set in motion a domino effect of leaving, finally leaving, really leaving the familial nest. And finding herself through the birthpangs she'll experience as she traverses the evolution of self.
This is all good. She needs to go after the job she craves so desperately, with all her heart. It won't be cajoled into calling her.
So she must leave.
And I get it.
And it's only for a few days.
But it feels like a stab in my heart.
Because I know she is on the road towards full dissolution of the parental need.
And it hurts. And so, I cried today. Yet it's foolish to cry. For we must all let go in order to watch them fly.
I'm a mom to a seven year old and I don't want to face his teen years much less when he'll leave home for the first time! I don't know what the heck I'm going to do when he does leave. I know he will and he'll go on to do great things, but he's my baby! You need to let me know how you're going to deal with this because I need to know what to do by the time it's my son's turn to leave.
Dear Heiddi,
I'm sorry to have caused you anxiety! But get used to it, because raising healthy, productive children means that if you do a GOOD job, they will WANT to leave and make you proud of them.
It's part of the whole process. Remember the wise saying, "Our children don't belong to us, they belong to the world, we are "merely" the homebase, the grounding, the place they love the most: you."
Well, maybe it wasn't an old saying. I just made it up.
But don't worry, you have lots of time to love your son, (don't smother him, though) and rejoice in knowing you are shaping a wonderful human being who will continue to do wonderful things in the world!
Stages 
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