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When family procrastination protects different grief timelines

My siblings and I keep putting off dealing with our childhood home after our parents moved to assisted living and we all have different relationships to letting go of that space and no one wants to be the one pushing for action because it feels like pushing everyone to grieve.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is using collective delay to honor individual emotional needs that haven't been spoken aloud.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Procrastination — psychological and philosophical dimensions?”

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