((((hugs)))) to you. My son will be turning 18 in Oct but he says he's not going anywhere...
I think if he were to say he's leaving I would feel the same way you are feeling. I do know that whether its now or later I'm going to go through it because he's not living with mom forever. He's into cutting hair and thats what he's going to school for. He's already in shows and he just keeps telling me....mom, one day you'll see. He cuts only guys hair but the designs he does just amaze me. Don't know where it got it from, he just learned it on his own. Right now he's 17 and he makes over 200.00 a day cutting hair. I really wanted him to go to college but I'm not forcing him.. he's doing what he loves to do and as he says you watch mom one day I'm going to cut a celebrity's hair. He doesn't know but once he's done school I'm starting up a business for him.
Stay strong mom. This will make him a strong man.....and he'll be back.