Good job politely informing X’s family members; they are welcome to pick up S2 early. Treating XMIL kindly, as a checkout chick , is a good plan.
The scrapbook of X’s birth and first year, along with other mementos, was left behind. There probably will come a day when X would be happy to have it back. True, there’s no need for you to be his storage locker. Yet, if you have the room, and a spare cardboard box, you could pack those kind of things up and put them away. In some future time, X may ask if you have it, or son may like to look at stuff from his Dad’s birth. Giving it all to XMIL is also a good option.
My XW left everything in her hurried exodus. She’s never asked for any of it back. Treasures and gifts from her children you’d think would garner some desire for re-acquirement, but no, not yet anyways. Maybe never. Those boxes are stored away; I’ve got lots of room. And really who else would that stuff go to? Her parents threw her away when she was young.
Your wedding dress and your treasures. Give it some time, like a full year after the divorce, before you decide. It’s perfectly ok to store the stuff away and decide later.
XW’s wedding dress (and left behind clothes) did eventually find its way to the dump. Burning it, I felt, was a better symbolic idea. However, the events of getting the dress to the dump, the rain, mud, tripping hazard , and it’s final resting position splayed upon the garbage pile, all mud covered and rain soaked, turned out to be perfectly symbolic of a marriage thrown away.
Today I awoke to seasonable temperatures of -20C. Brrrrr. Your summer sounds wonderful. I can barely imagine chasing someone outside with the hose right now. Lol.
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Feelings are fleeting. Be better, not bitter. Love the person, forgive the sin.
, is a good plan.