My family has owned our cabin for three generations and my siblings and I are supposed to decide what to do with it now that our parents can't maintain it, but every family gathering turns into this heavy negotiation about money and logistics and none of us can remember why we loved going there. The place that used to bring us together is now the thing we can't talk about without tension.
More people experience this than they realize.
The burden of preserving something precious has made it impossible to feel the lightness that made it worth preserving.
“Where Are You with Place attachment — loving where you are?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.