I was an empty nester at 40. My boys kinda came and went, so it was never a true empty nest. They would come in and eat, use the bathroom etc. I love them more than life. I had my first baby at 18, I got out of the hospital on my 18th birthday, not really the way I was expecting to spend my 18th, but I wouldn't trade it for nothing. I thought I was so mature and knew everything, I am 46 getting ready for 47 in September, I didn't know nothing back then, and I ain't so sure I have all the answers now. But it is a little funny how you become humble with age. Maybe wiser, all them old people back in the day, telling you something, they knew what they were talking about.