Confieso que, sin él, esos diez años de mi vida estarían vacíos y sin objetivos.

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#1

Why not “habrían estado”?

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#2

From StudySpanish

To express speculation about the past:

Aquél día correrían más de veinticinco kilómetros.
That day they must have run more than 25 kilometers.

Like the example above, I think this is a case where an English tense doesn’t doesn’t map one-to-one onto a Spanish tense.

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#3

When I read “estarían”, i think “would be”, not “would have been”

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