Hello, Henna and Julie,

If I might chime in on the "when it's time to let go", I too wrote a post about moving on that had connections to one of my children. To Henna's point, sometimes there are clear demarcations of transition (like your son's departure Julie) but oftentimes the inner struggle within ourselves is the toughest to manage.

I think the general rule of thumb that I've begun to use when determining if it's time to let go is: "is the energy expended convincing myself to stay exceeding the energy I'm putting into the project/activity/endeavor?" That can be a pretty good clue.

For anyone who's interested, here's that post I wrote:

http://people-equation.com/10-signs-that-its-time-to-move-on/