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When Inheritance Money Feels Too Sacred to Spend

My grandmother left me $15,000 when she died and it has been sitting untouched for a year because spending it feels like losing her all over again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Money becomes a vessel for grief, where spending represents letting go of connection with the deceased.

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