We have been contacted by a father, who is in need of support and advice to help him cope with the prospect of both his children leaving home. His daughter, her fiance and new baby, left home last autumn and are thinking of moving farther away. His son is in his senior year. The father and his wife plan to move home themselves and his son does not want to go with them.

His wife has been their stepmother for many years and loves them dearly, but does not want children of her own, although he would quite like another child. He is not yet 40. She is looking forward to a quiet life. As he says, "I did not expect this to all happen so soon. I am just so depressed and cry all the time. Raising my kids was my life. Now I don't know what I am going to do."

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