Episode description
Episode description
EPISODE 15 - Jim Burns - Author, On All Things Empty Nesting and Doing Life With Your Adult Children - Reconnecting with your partner and helping your kids launch well
Jen and I are now in the empty nest stage - we are surrounded with all the stuff that our kids played with, treasured, wore and enjoyed - we are also surrounded by a haunting silence and emptiness - a quiet home devoid of chaos, friends of our kids everywhere, appointments, after school activities, go there, do this be here stuff that filled our lives with a hectic busyness and a sense of parental obligation. We had everyone under one roof and it felt good. This is a time of life that we anticipated would come some day.
For me as a Dad I sensed this empty nest state would equate freedom, my wife Jen has a different take on this - everything and everyone revolved around Jen with the kids here - she knew her role in all of our lives (mine included) now that keep the plates spinning season is over, and it feels strange.
I heard our guest on another podcast and he was talking to our situation - he had such wisdom and a heart for what we are living and I had to have him on - and to my great surprise and delight he said, yes!
Please join me in welcoming Jim Burns to our podcast!
Jim Burns is the president of HomeWord. He speaks to thousands of people around the world each year. He has more than 2 million resources in print in 20 languages. He primarily writes and speaks on the values of HomeWord, which are: Strong Marriages, Confident Parents, Empowered Kids, and Healthy Leaders. Some of his most popular books are: Doing Life With Your Adult Children, The Purity Code, Creating an Intimate Marriage, Have Serious Fun, Doing Life with Your Adult Children, and Finding Joy in the Empty Nest. Jim and his wife, Cathy, live in Southern California and have three grown daughters, Christy, Rebecca, and Heidi; three sons-in-law, Steve, Andy and Matt; and three grandchildren, James, Charlotte and Huxley.
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