When my only child was 14, he announced that he wanted to live with his father...because it was “more fun".

My son leaving home “freed” me to focus on work...and made me realise that it couldn’t fill the hole his departure had left.

The chances are that a working mum has shaped her working life around her role as a mother in some way – if not all ways.

Empty Nest Syndrome is real and valid and bloody painful. But being an Empty Nester doesn't have to define us.