She used the transition period that we now call the empty-nest stage as an opportunity to soar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reposition Yourself] Reference

It is no longer “How can I avoid the empty-nest syndrome?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 June 11 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

Many experts have come to see the empty-nest syndrome as myth.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 June 11 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

The concept of decades-long, empty-nest marriages was never considered.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Til 40 Years Do Us Part] Reference

The second concerns at least a partial remedy to the empty-nest problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Langer: To Give And To Receive: The When And The Why] Reference

You know, this is really, for -- for us, it's like her empty-nest syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2007] Reference

If some empty-nest parents feel a void in their lives, so do some of their absent children.    From Wordnik.com.  [America’s Loneliness Problem Worsening | Impact Lab] Reference

Myra was no simple homebound hausfrau suffering from bereavement or the empty-nest syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shrink Dreams] Reference

My husband and I responded to the empty-nest by taking a look around - and getting a divorce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mona Ackerman: Advice For A Liberated Woman] Reference

She reads about "the empty-nest syndrome" and worries about what will happen to her when her kids grow up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mommy Vs. Mommy] Reference

This could have a serious financial effect, especially on empty-nest seniors who may be looking to downsize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's Position on Capital-Gains Tax] Reference

Her children having departed for college and beyond, McGillis isn't suffering from empty-nest syndrome, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: Interview: Actress Kelly McGillis in Stake Land] Reference

Career women seeking more meaning in their lives and empty-nest moms are also finding their way to convent doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Answering God's call] Reference

But the other fact is that we've never before faced empty-nest periods that could easily extend for 20 or 30 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al and Tipper Gore's sad love story: Where do we begin . . . to express our sadness?] Reference

The remedy for the depression experienced when faced with an "empty-nest," is often to "find something else to attend to.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellen Langer: To Give And To Receive: The When And The Why] Reference

Goodman says that she used to think mothers who had rewarding work “might avoid the cliché of an empty-nest syndrome.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 June 11 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

Although it's a little hard to admit -- I am already feeling the empty-nest syndrome, in spite of being sure it would never hit me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Parenting Advice: A Father's Pre-Empty Nest Post-Partum Mess] Reference

Eleanor had lunched with a former classmate, a magazine editor who asked if Eleanor wanted to write an article about empty-nest syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strangers at the Feast] Reference

A year or so ago, after his daughter had gone off to college, Ken's wife, suffering from the empty-nest syndrome, had wanted to get a job.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Store]

What is the difference between empty-nest and emptiness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Now the wonder horse is facing up to empty-nest syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Are you suffering from a sort of empty-nest syndrome now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avastu Blog - Sustainable Global Clouds] Reference

"I have people tell me it's my empty-nest syndrome," she joked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kitsap Sun Stories] Reference

I also think it means I've got a case of early-onset empty-nest syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Third Mom] Reference

This is a forecast period that oddly feels like the "empty-nest" syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [EURweb] Reference

The Rooster's Wife - a reference to Kenworthy's empty-nest syndrome - launched in December.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It's my guess most empty-nest or non-parent adults don't use crayons unless they also teach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

See what happens as a midlife, empty-nest man brings home a stray dog, much to his wife's chagrin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simi Valley Acorn] Reference

The friends with whom we raised our oldest three now in their twenties are enjoying their empty-nest years.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The heaviness she'd been feeling in her limbs for days could be dismissed as some delayed empty-nest response.    From Wordnik.com.  [courierpress.com Stories] Reference

To everyone's great surprise, the results found the empty-nest marriages are HAPPIER than families with children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here There and Everywhere] Reference

After dropping off her youngest son at college in 1996, Kathy Allen was struck with a case of empty-nest syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

What is difficult and wrenching for you IS empty-nest stuff and you will recognized it again when son #2 leaves home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autism Hub] Reference

○ Retirement Horizons-These empty-nest married couples are college-educated dual earners looking forward to retirement.    From Wordnik.com.  [GISuser - GIS and Geospatial Technology News] Reference

But there may be hope for parents who suffer from depression after their children leave, also known as "empty-nest syndrome.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Iowan - Online Edition] Reference

'It used to be very much an empty-nest phenomenon for the over-fifties, but this week alone I've met five new women all under 40.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Offspring are often the biggest glue in a marriage and the empty-nest syndrome can cruelly expose the differences between a couple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

0 Comments on "Engvallution: Comic has gone from 'Here's Your Sign' shtick to actor, TV host, empty-nest dad and juror".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Charleston Gazette -] Reference

So say all my other empty-nest fathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Parenting Advice: A Father's Pre-Empty Nest Post-Partum Mess] Reference

I'm already feeling the empty-nest syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: Parenting Advice: A Father's Pre-Empty Nest Post-Partum Mess] Reference