My mom keeps asking my brother and me to help her clear out the basement but every time we start she gets upset and tells us we're throwing away memories and we end up fighting about things that happened twenty years ago.
More people experience this than they realize.
Possessions become proxies for unresolved feelings when family members assign different meanings to shared history.
“Where Are You with Authoritative vs. authoritarian parenting?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.