GM,

My XH is exactly the same.

Didn't take anything that I, or the kids, had ever given him or made for him.

Not a book, not a card, not a gift or keepsake.....Nothing.

Except for his teenage guitar - I think he sees himself as back at that stage of life and wanted to strum again (perhaps he'll join a rock roll band!).

He also asked for an old juke box his parents had given him as a 21st birthday present. It has sat unused and broken-down in our (oft-flooded) garage for 20 years. He never came to pick it up though.

It all seems par for the course.

What a terrible condition they find themselves in.