When the kids leave home, do dads feel it more?

When kids leave home, is it worse for fathers?

My mother-in-law called the other day to see how I was doing. My husband and I had just taken our daughter – our firstborn – to college. Now, we were home, contemplating her room and the beloved detritus of her childhood – old snow pants, dog-eared Pendragon books, corkboard photo collages – and my mother-in-law wanted to make sure I was holding up.