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When siblings must make practical decisions about emotional inheritance

My brother and I inherited our grandmother's house together and we both have sentimental attachment to it, but one of us needs to buy the other out and neither of us can afford it, and we keep avoiding the conversation about what we're actually going to do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Sometimes love and money become impossible to separate, and avoiding the conversation only makes both more painful.

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