The Grief Nobody Calls Grief — Empty Nest and Letting Go of Your Senior

Found at 17 | Abandonment Wounds & Relationship Patterns · Aug 4, 2026 · 11m

You counted the dinners. You didn't sit down and do it. It landed on you one night at the table, and it hasn't left since.

This is empty nest grief, and it starts long before the nest is empty. In this episode Rosanna names the last year with your senior: the math you cannot stop doing, why you keep snapping at a kid you are about to miss, and why nobody will let you call this grief. When someone dies, people bring food. When your child leaves for exactly the reason you raised them to leave, people say congratulations. Nobody sends a card for this. She also talks to the women doing senior…