Part of the heartbreak, guest, is not just the emptiness, but the realization that your relationship will change. It has to and if we've done the job we set out to do in raising them, the best part of us wants it to. But when those roles first shift, it's hard.

Also, when you consider that every decision you've made in the last 18-20-some years has been with that child's best interest in mind, and now he or she is not even consulting you when making major decisions, a part of you says, "Hey, wait a minute!" yep...changing roles....

But it WILL be okay, you'll see. And as Sinsull said up there, go ahead and snivel all you need to. It's part of the mending....