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When shopping becomes a form of impossible caregiving

I keep buying things my dead husband would have liked and putting them in his closet and I know this is not normal but I cannot stop

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The drive to continue providing for the dead reveals how deeply caregiving instincts persist beyond the possibility of their fulfillment.

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