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When siblings clash over timing and pace of letting go of a parent's belongings

My brother and I are the only ones left now that both our parents are gone, and we keep having the same fight about dad's tools in the garage — he wants to donate them and I'm not ready, but it's been eighteen months and I know he's tired of waiting for me. We both loved dad but we process everything so differently and I'm afraid we're going to lose each other over a bunch of wrenches.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're discovering that shared love doesn't always mean shared timing in how you release what remains.

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