Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | My baby is leaving the nest today

My 18 year old son Jeremy is moving out today. We live in Alexandria, VA & he will be attending a tech school in Columbia, MD. Columbia is only about an hour away, but because of traffic in this area, we agreed it would be best for him to move over there; he will be living in a apartment off campus that is leased by the school with three other young men. I am excited for him & am nervous of course. This will be his first time in this kind of situation & of course I am his Mom & I am worried

. Through circumstances my son & I have not been away from each other very much. My husband Jerry has been through this with two stepsons & his very own Jeremy (yes, we had his & hers Jeremys), so this is not a real big deal to him & he is being supportive, but he just doesn't get it. My best friend told me when this day came to call her, but she isn't home, so I came here

. I told my son that I might have a little bit of a hard time with this & he told me he didn't get it. I told him he didn't get it for two reasons: Reason 1 being that I was his Mom & he was my son & Reason #2 was that I was a female & he was a male. He nodded & said that is honest & I said well I have always tried to be & he said Bet. So that was our magical Mother/Son moment. I take them whenever I can & treasure them. They make up for the times when I want to tell him just to shut up, because he is being a 18 year old male.
Well goodness, Jeremy just walked in from getting a haircut & we just had another Mother/Son moment. Wow. You have to understand my son does not like emotions/talking about them etc. He gets very impatient. Wow. Anyway, we were talking & I told him how I was feeling. I told him that I know when he walks out that door today, from this point on things will be different. When he comes home, it will be like he is visiting, not living here anymore & he agreed. I told him, this is where you are supposed to be, but I am having some difficulties right now. I told him that I wouldn't latch onto his foot when he was walking out the door, crying don't leave me son.

He laughed & said thanks for that. He even said real low under his breath where I could barely hear it, that it sucked for him too. Wow. I just can't believe I had this conversation with my son. What a gift. Thanks for listening.

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Daisy
"Sometimes you are the Windshield, sometimes you are the bug".

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