I agree that you can’t put a price on leaving a legacy, and there is no price on my children’s heads here. But I’ll tell you, I can’t wait for an empty nest! I want my children to grow up, get out there and make a life for themselves. I want grandkids! (not anytime soon though…) And I want my life back. I want to have the flexibility and money to come home from work on a Friday, tell my wife to pack a bag, and just disappear for the weekend. I want to be able to simply go and buy something, instead of having to weigh it out against the family budget. Understand, I married for the first time at just a few days past 26 years old. My wife had a baby girl, so it was a “just add dad” situation to instant family. I had only been in my first “real” job for about 8 months at the time. I went from living my life at home, to a short period of living my life for me, straight into living my life for my new family. I’m not complaining. I’m simply stating that I see my years of raising kids as something I was obliged to do for my family to carry on our line. I see those years as something I owed my kids because I took on the responsibility of doing so. Once they are adults, I am no longer responsible FOR and TO them, and I can begin to enjoy them as individuals and not “my kids”. I want to be free of the responsibilities to others so that I can enjoy being responsible to myself (and my wife of course.) I love my kids, and I am sure I’ll miss them once they are gone. But I will also make the best of however many years I have left once they are out and on their own. It will be MY life again, and I’m going to enjoy it as much as I can. My wife and I intend to travel as much as possible, and are already talking about where in the world we may like to live once it’s just the two of us. We certainly wont need the 5 bedroom three story house we have now! And perhaps we can move out of the city and into a more rural setting with less traffic and less people. (we live closer to the city for convenient access to things like shopping, school, and all the stuff our kids do outside of school.) https://usa-girls.startupdate.nl/ https://usa-girls.linkschakel.nl/ https://usa-girls.linknavigator.nl/ https://usa-girls.startfreak.nl/ https://usa-girls.skhor.de/ https://usa-girls.surfplezier.nl/ https://usa-girls.startway.nl/ https://usa-girls.linkactueel.nl/