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  "Every marriage is made up of two ingredients, togetherness and separateness. In good marriages, the partners carry equal loads of those. Let's say there are 100 points of togetherness and 100 points of separateness. In a good relationship, one partner expresses 50 points of togetherness and 50 points of separateness, and the other does the same. They both do things on their own, and that creates some mutual longing for the other, and the togetherness creates some need for separateness." —Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud Part 2 The Season of Separateness As quoted above, Dr. Henry Cloud described a healthy togetherness and separateness in marriage. But it is interesting to note that this also holds true for a healthy parent-child relationship—especially for home-educating families, presuming that they have a close relationship with each other. This is the kind of perspective that helped you process and prepare for what would inevitably happen in the future as your daughter...

Part 1  The Season of Togetherness How do you wrap your mama-heart around the thought of your daughter leaving home for college in Manila, Philippines? From nursery, kinder 1, and kinder 2, to grades 1 through 12—we are talking about 15 wonderful years of preparing her for this season of going to college. "She's finally on her own now and away from your leash" was a joke that somehow felt like reality. But would those 15 years be enough to train her to overcome the challenges of university life, and eventually, the real world for which she was called for a purpose? Yes. You think so. You will worry and you will be scared naturally, thinking about how she will survive living mostly on her own in the big city. But that is not how you're going to take this season of your life. It's not about worrying or doubting, although you can't deny that this struggle is real. What is this all about, then? This is all about your posture—how you're going to welcome the ine...