Darrah’s absence has brought something else into bold relief — our attachment to certain routines. Without her youthful energy buzzing through the house, some of our longtime habits have deepened — calcified? — into codgerlike rituals. The one that most amazes and amuses Dan and me takes place after dinner, when we…amble into the living room…put on a CD and pick up our respective books (these days, usually from the library). We then commence what we call "parallel reading."
…Once in a while, one of us will notice the rutlike quality of this activity and say something to the effect of, "What have we come to?" Then we’ll chuckle, sip some tea, and go back to our books.
That is from Karen Stabiner’s The Empty Nest: 31 Parents Tell the Truth About Relationships, Love, and Freedom After the Kids Fly the Coop. For one thing, I don’t drink much tea.
Interesting, in the personal context of just having sent our first boy off to college.
My wife plies me with tea. Which kind depends on the latest research on anti-oxidants and such stuff. I’m openly skeptical about such ‘research,’ but she keeps up with it because she deeply cares about how long I live. In such a context, I consider my tea drinking as a form of relationship-building.
gorobei, maybe what they enjoy is new experiences.
Good lord, I must be a boring person: that sounds ideal to me , and I’m still in college.
Hm … been playing guitar for decades and hardly ever felt like being in a rut.
I’m even worse: we have three computers in the den, so we don’t even read books.
Dan Gilbert has said the major hazard faced by parents who’ve packed their kids off to college is facial pain from so much smiling. Contrary to the popular idea of sobbing and mourning, he reports that parents are really happy once they unload the kids.
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