Trying times

As a parent you think that once they fly the nest your life will be easier. It's not. Almost two years gone and Elder Son can still reduce me to tears and tear my heart apart. Did I do this to my own parents? I like to think I didn't but I don't remember. Thinking about it they didn't know the minutiae of my day once I'd left home. There were no mobile phones, there was no internet for instant access and constant communication. There was the public payphone and letters. Looking back, it was a letter from my mother that alerted me to the what my 'boyfriend' was up to. Had I been told via a text message or IM on facebook would I have believed her? No, I would probably have cut her off and not spoken to her again - a bit like ES is doing to me now.