I think the cleaning out of the parents' house can (even if we don't feel it) be so stressful, that all we want to do is go home and collapse where it's safe. I don't know if that's the case with you, but it certainly was with me with both my mother's home (which we bought and live in) and my wife's parents' home. So, yes I'm guessing it's all part of the grieving process.
I don't think it's an age thing. After all I'll be 60 in Jan. I write less than I used to write because the "newness" has worn off of LJ. More folks are going away than are coming in new. I do sometimes wonder how long LJ will last before other venues take over. Oh well, I'm not going to obsess this morning.
It's good to hear how you are doing. The packing up the household of a a loved one is a difficult process, I know. Thank goodness for your special friends, and that you are getting closer to being finished with the tasks.
You know? I just realized that, altough we were close as 'family,' my mother and stepdad and I weren't close personally. Coupled with the fact that my mother had alzheimer's during her last years and I didn't feel a real personal loss when they died. And I was much older than you are. I can understand your sorrow though.
Our children are going to have a MAJOR job cleaning out our house unless Ann and I start doing something soon. We've already warned them! :)
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I don't think it's an age thing. After all I'll be 60 in Jan. I write less than I used to write because the "newness" has worn off of LJ. More folks are going away than are coming in new. I do sometimes wonder how long LJ will last before other venues take over. Oh well, I'm not going to obsess this morning.
Please take care of you!
yf,
Tom
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Our children are going to have a MAJOR job cleaning out our house unless Ann and I start doing something soon. We've already warned them! :)
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