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Thoughts and Feelings About Empty Nest

with Barbara Rainey, Susan Yates | May 16, 2011
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You’ve longed for the day when the house would be peaceful again and the kids would finally be grown and on their own. But now that it’s here, all you can do is mourn your loss. Today on the broadcast, authors Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates remember the day when their youngest chicks flew the family coop and suddenly propelled them into the new stage of life called the empty nest.

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  • About the Host

  • About the Guest

  • You’ve longed for the day when the house would be peaceful again and the kids would finally be grown and on their own. But now that it’s here, all you can do is mourn your loss. Today on the broadcast, authors Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates remember the day when their youngest chicks flew the family coop and suddenly propelled them into the new stage of life called the empty nest.

  • Dave and Ann Wilson

    Dave and Ann Wilson are hosts of FamilyLife Today®, FamilyLife’s nationally-syndicated radio program. Dave and Ann have been married for more than 38 years and have spent the last 33 teaching and mentoring couples and parents across the country. They have been featured speakers at FamilyLife’s Weekend to Remember® marriage getaway since 1993 and have also hosted their own marriage conferences across the country. Cofounders of Kensington Church—a national, multicampus church that hosts more than 14,000 visitors every weekend—the Wilsons are the creative force behind DVD teaching series Rock Your Marriage and The Survival Guide To Parenting, as well as authors of the recently released book Vertical Marriage (Zondervan, 2019). Dave is a graduate of the International School of Theology, where he received a Master of Divinity degree. A Ball State University Hall of Fame quarterback, Dave served the Detroit Lions as chaplain for 33 years. Ann attended the University of Kentucky. She has been active alongside Dave in ministry as a speaker, writer, small-group leader, and mentor to countless wives of professional athletes. The Wilsons live in the Detroit area. They have three grown sons, CJ, Austin, and Cody, three daughters-in-law, and a growing number of grandchildren.

You’ve longed for the day when the house would be peaceful again and the kids would finally be grown and on their own.

Thoughts and Feelings About Empty Nest

With Barbara Rainey, Susan Yates
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May 16, 2011
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Bob:  And those who are thinking, "Well, that season is still pretty far off for me," - I remember hearing somebody talk about their empty nest experience even before we'd had all of our kids, and I just remember being struck by the fact that this happens for everybody – you can wait to think about it, you can wait to imagine it, but it's coming for everybody whose got kids, and it’s better to start thinking about it and preparing for it on the front end than just wait until they're juniors in high school, and saying, "Oh, it's here."

Let me encourage our listeners:  go to our website FamilyLifeToday.com, order a copy of Barbara and Susan's Guide to the Empty Nest.  Again, you’ll find it online at FamilyLifeToday.com or you can order a copy by calling 1-800-FLTODAY; 1-800-358-6329.  That’s 1-800-F as in family, L as in life, and then the word TODAY. 

Again the title of the book is Barbara and Susan's Guide to the Empty Nest.  If you’re calling, just ask about the Empty Nest book and we’ll be happy to get a copy of it out to you. 

We are half-way through the month of May.  I want to say a quick word of thanks to those of you who have responded to the matching gift challenge that FamilyLife has going on here.  We had some friends of the ministry back earlier in the spring who said, “We know that summertime is often a difficult season for ministries like FamilyLife.”  Donations go down and that can cause some challenges for the ministry.  So they said, “We’d like to help out.  We’d like to make a matching gift challenge.  If FamilyLife listeners will send in a donation during the month of May, we’ll match the donation dollar-for-dollar, up to a total of $750,000.” 

That, by the way, is the largest single matching gift that we’ve ever received for a month outside of the month of December, so we’re very grateful for their generosity and we want to make sure we can take full advantage of it.  I was looking at the thermometer on our website that’s keeping track of how we’re doing, and we’ve still got a ways to go. 

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I want to encourage you to be back with us tomorrow when we’re going to talk more about the sense of loss that women feel when they enter into the empty nest season of life.  Our guests again tomorrow are Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates.  We hope you can be back with us again as well. 

I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.  On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.  We'll see you back tomorrow for another edition of FamilyLife Today.

FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.

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