My sister and I have been cleaning out our childhood home after mom moved to assisted living and we keep getting into fights that aren't really about the stuff we're sorting through but about who we were as a family before everything changed and neither of us wants to let go of that version of ourselves.
More people experience this than they realize.
The dismantling of a shared childhood world forces a reckoning with selves that can only exist in relation to what no longer is.
“Where Are You with Grief for lost identity — who you were before?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.