Episodes

This week we talk about Easter...as a child, a parent and how things have evolved. Hear about our celebration of Easter in Arizona with the kids. Text is from Tanner. #relationships #marriage #recreation #podcast #EmptyNester...

Why does Rick say it’s the most wonderful time of the year? How has the NCAA tournament controlled our schedules over the years? Texts(pages of the them) are from Tanner and Teagan. #relationships #marriage #recreation #p...

This week we discuss how life can be mundane in the empty nest. From clipping cat's nails to going to a kids movie-that’s life and with it comes ups and downs-laughs and loss. Text is from Tanner. #relationships #marriage #re...

We recap our fun trip with Teagan to New York for her spring break week. We touch on Tanner's last spring break as a college senior. You will be HUNGRY after this one as we always talk about food when we travel. #relationshi...

Even Empty Nesters need a break so we hope you enjoy this episode replay. One of our favorite ones as we filmed on location at the Grand Canyon and Saguaro National Parks Filming On location! Coming to you from our travels t...

What is Grey Divorce? 10 Ten Causes for a Grey Divorce and 6 Ways to Prevent Grey Divorce Find out what's making Tanner feel old Top 10 reasons for Grey Divorce https://www.equitablemediation.com/blog/empty-nesters-divorce ...

We’ll recap our true to form V-Day. Teagan’s text falls right in line with her mama’s heart. Rick’s 99 year old Nana tells us a story that has us saying, wait, what?? Do you know that man? Cut that guy off! Two things we neve...

❤️This will be our 27th Valentine’s Day together. Why did we say no to going out on this high pressure holiday? What are some of our favorite love songs? How has the day of love looked different over the years? Texts from bot...

🚗We are coming at you from the road-literally! We had a great weekend in Arizona with the kids and their friends but are we getting too old to hang with the college crowd? Did we see fossils or are we just calling ourselves t...

Clancy talks about how she handled Rick traveling this week. Rick took the initiative to plan an evening out-where did they go? Met Clancy’s parents for lunch and discussed some “not so fun” topics. Text is from Tanner.

Clancy and Rick go through 5 questions geared for empty nesters. How is this phase going, what are some needs and what does the future look like? Text is from Teagan.

What??? Listen to hear the answer. Rick and Clancy reminisce about their favorite albums during the dating/young married years. Our musical tastes cross several genres and will spark memories for many of you. Text of the week...

It’s the second week of 2024. There are several big events coming up for the Denton fam in 2024. We’ll fill you in on a few. We discuss our goals (not resolutions) and some micro enhancements for the next year. It’s on the po...

Clancy and Rick will recap the Holiday season with both kids being back in the house. We both agree this season was so much fun with no high school stuff controlling our schedules. Our New Year’s Eve was an obvious contrast w...

What do Fridays mean to you? How have Fridays changed over the stages of life? We discuss four different phases and how Fridays have changed for us in each one. 👀Watch for the surprise guest this week

Rick and Clancy talk us through some of their favorite and their family’s favorite Christmas movies. Shocker that they heavily fall in the comedic category and one may be a surprising choice for some. Text is from Tanner ...

We’ve been at this empty nester thing for one semester (using our college kids’ calendar). Clancy takes us through an article of the Top 30 Best Empty Nester Date ideas she found with some good and not so good ideas for empty...

We had a great time celebrating the week of Thanksgiving in Arizona. As always...lots of fun with the kids and their friends. 🏈Tons of football, 🍗food and no one threw any 👊punches during Phase 10. So glad that BiBi and PopPo...

Holidays look a little different as empty nesters. Hear what we did for Halloween and how we are changing things up for Thanksgiving. Text is from Teagan and shows how different college is for these kiddos. #relationships ...

How do we help our kids through disappointment with distance in between What’s our role with adult children and how do we deal with the new roles/boundaries? Giving them a virtual hug (gifting money to enjoy the World Series ...

📺TV is Clancy’s love 😍 language and she’s slowly gotten Rick to come to the dark side. We’ll talk about what we are watching now and discuss a couple of our go to oldies(from the 90s). The proclamation of our undying love of...