As a parent do you ever lose the anxiety for your kids?

[zilla68]

My son lives in Minnesota temporarily while in training for work. He is 24. He has been there a year.
I knew he was meeting his girlfriend in kansas city for valentines weekend, and I travel alot for work, so I gave im about 14,000 rental car points so he could rent instead of driving his truck. Found out tonite that he didn't want to use the points as it would take alot of them, and he would only be out of pocket the taxes etc, which i told him i would gladly pay.
So he's driving his truck.
It's about 4-5 hours i think, not crazy, but god my anxiety shot thru the roof thinking of him breaking down.
I guess I put my dad thru it also, but hell back in the late 80's early 90's but I knew my way around a toolbox and repairs.
I remember breaking a ball joint on my truck in a podunk town in SE okla, and changing it in a grocery store parking lot one night, with virtually no tools and for damn sure no you tube.

He knew I was pissed and he said well I guess I'll let you know if your right or not.
My buddy said man you got to let it go, let him figure it out, but it scares me to death about a breakdown.

Daughter is 20 and last summer jumped in her car without mom telling me, drove to galveston with her buddies, drove me crazy when i found out, no checking oil, no checking tires, just go.
I have a horrible fear of not being there to help them like I always have on these type situations.

I know there's alot of parents with growing up kids on here, does it every go away?

 

[CAN AM MIKE]

As a Dad of 3 Daughters, the answer is NO. It never goes away. But isn’t that what Dads are for

 

[Mayday]

LOL, I know! But imagine what we made it through at those ages with much less resources. They learn from mistakes and challenges, but dang is it hard to stand on the sidelines and let it unfold

 

[Mayday]

And yes constant anxiety. Not sure if it goes away. Not sure this helps, but your not alone!

 

[1tonfun]

I lost my anxiety over my kids when they were in their late teens. They ran with a good group of friends and I was usually the last person they would call when something went wrong. They were very good at figuring it out and getting back on the road. They would call me after the fact to let me know what happened, what they did to fix it, and everything was ok. Usually the only time they called when they had an issue was to bring the trailer because they had exhausted all other options. My wife on the other hand is a different story, when she is on a road trip I always worry until I get the call that she arrived.