Help! New grad w/ roller coaster emotions!

[kamalani]

Just curious...

This has been such a stressful time for us.. first there were finals, then preparations and practices for the graduation, then the actual ceremony followed by the project graduation all-night party. Now there is a feeling of sadness and loss, even panic, since friends will be going away to college soon, and life will never be the same.

Is there anyone else out there who is experiencing the emotional rollercoaster, or even something vaguely similar?

[copslass]

Well, my oldest dd graduated a *year ago and just returned from her freshman year on campus, and today her "senior video" song came on the radio, and I could "see" every shot of her at each moment of the song, and bawled my eyes out.

You mean like that?

Or the kids' roller coaster?

[kamalani]

Actually, I think we're all on a roller coaster of emotions, the whole family. We used to be so close, but now everyone is running off in different directions to sports events, work, with friends. We rarely spend time together doing anything except eating, and then we can't even agree on the menu, or even the eating time! This is a time when separation is something we need to be working on... but it's sad, though. She'll be going to college fairly close by, and may be staying in the dorms to help with the feeling of belonging and the commute!

There are college placement tests, graduation parties, thank you's to write, gifts to send, not to mention trying to help dd with deciding which classes to register for. Then there's the since-I'm-a-freshman-I-might-not-get-any classes worry.

On the topic of emotions, one day we're fine, then suddenly I feel so un needed, so "yesterday." One day dd is the sweet little girl I've always known, the next day she's an aloof almost-adult who finds my slightest interest in her to be annoying.



Am I the only one?

[Catsinthecradle]

You're not the only one! I've been there, too. Time will heal. Just be her stablizing factor!