Abby Connolly
He did the same thing with her jewelry, keeping any family heirlooms from his and her side and putting everything else in the dining room.
“I then invited her family over with the explanation that I am going through my wife’s things, and if they wanted anything, they could take what they would like,” he recalled.
“Well, they flipped out on me. They said I was trying to erase my wife’s memory and that by removing her things, I have destroyed the place they go to when they want to remember my wife.”
His wife’s family began demanding that he put all her things back where they were, telling him they weren’t ready to get rid of any of it.
Now, he’s starting to feel guilty because his wife’s family made him feel awful, and he wonders if he shouldn’t have started that process without them.
Should he feel guilty, or was his wife’s family overreacting?
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