Couples whose grown children have finally left home – empty nesters, if you will – are visited by twin blessings that can quickly come to seem like challenges: a sudden surfeit of privacy and an unfamiliar excess of time. After years of wearing the armour of parenting, to find yourselves a couple again – alone together and at a loose end – can be daunting and a little embarrassing.
This juncture also provides a golden opportunity for a reset, but to reinvigorate the romantic side of your relationship you may first have to find it. Don’t worry: it’s probably exactly where you parked it two decades ago.
