Any tips for 'goodbyes' ?

[VirginVegGrower]

Don't have kids - much easier!

Yes you do! They're just furry/hairy

[Nicos]

Yes you do! They're just furry/hairy

...urmmm...and unfortunately ...die more often!

[Glutton4...]

...urmmm...and unfortunately ...die more often!

No, I've never had one die more than once!

[Feral007]

Don't have kids - much easier!

You're just a tad late (20yrs) with that advice G4, pass the G&T please!

[VirginVegGrower]

You're just a tad late (20yrs) with that advice G4, pass the G&T please!

Yeah! Where were you when I need you 15 years ago G4? I'll have cucumber in mine thanks. In fact, on second thoughts, skip the gin! It's what happened last time

[Glutton4...]

Sorry Ladies - I was giving that advice/suggestion out all those years ago - you just ignored me!

I realised at 14 that Motherhood wasn't the way to go, and I'll be 50 in March!

[veggiechicken]

I'm exactly the same G4 - I ignored my first doll, preferring a battered old teddybear -that's when I knew what I'd prefer - and I've never regretted it

[VirginVegGrower]

You're still mothering G4 - just the grown up type

[Patchninja]

can I steal the tips please?
My stepdaughter is off to Oz in march, she has a one way ticket and a 12month work visa - ''to see where it takes her''
Think Mr W might be worse than me mind and my son who dotes on his big sister

Have to say we're all getting a bit blubby already!!

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My daughter did that when she was 18. I thought I would die. Awful. But at least nowadays they can be in touch all the time.

[julesapple]

The DD and her BF could pick up the keys to their new house on Jan 5th. There will be no tears here. We shall be celebrating our new lives without bossiness. It will be unadulterated bliss in our house whilst the darling DD discovers what real life is like without staff......

Must change the phone number and the locks

[Alison]

You see I think that some people are the crying type and some people aren't - doesn't meant they care any more / less than each other. Don't really do crying unless it's something really big (proper sad stuff like people dying that I can do nothing about) and happy stuff (like people experiencing the world etc makes me smile as it's what they want to do so I'm happy for them. Have been told that horribly patronising phrase "you wouldn't understand, you're not a mother" but have friends who are mum's the are the same as me and ones that aren't that are blubbering wrecks at the first sign of anything. Don't think that you have that much choice of what sort you are and a few tears at the time won't do any harm either way so don't worry. Where things do matter though is if you live your life by worry / fear and want to control those around you, thereby limiting their potential to explore. OP doesn't sound remotely like that so have a blub then get on with life.

[Glutton4...]

You're still mothering G4 - just the grown up type

The fur and feather type!

[janeyo]

I recently found out my mum used to cry all the way home when they used to drive me to uni in Wales (about a 5 hour trip). I didn't blub then, was too busy off down the union bar! Even when they left me for my year out in France I was fine...

Now I have children of my own it's a different story! I have recently been blaming pregnancy and new baby hormones but as baby is now 5 weeks I need a new excuse! lol

Who cares if you shed a few tears - shows you care xxx

Hope you ok now Nicos x

[binley100]

Must say I've got more blubbery as I've got older ........even stupid things make me blub . Sometimes tho' I've had to bite my lip really hard not too. Like when eldest got a commendation for bravery and was stood with the rest of the team .........my little girl surrounded by all those 6ft teammates .......fgs someone pass the tissues.................

[julesapple]

Lots of things make me blubbery. Things on tv - not necessarily sad things - romantic music etc. I can't watch the Remembrance Day ceremonies. I was even choked at the Jubilee regatta - Maj stood there for hours. And the 'Lympics....totally useless at medal presentations, no matter who won what.

I've been trying to watch Andre Rieu on the Tube before we see him live. That has me surreptitiously wiping my eyes and groping up my sleeve for a hankie.....and I don't even keep hankies up my sleeves.