Well, we can commiserate about moving although I hope the experience fades quickly from my memory.
The physical labor was difficult to be sure. In reflecting about the process, my emotional response surprised me. After 15 mos. I thought I would have been more controlled. I find it interesting that the items which conjured up memories I quickly made a decision and donated or tossed. I just could not handle it. Yet, I decided to save other things, some of them probably useless items, which had no memories. I really thought I would have been more stoic about it all.
I am sorry that your wife fell into MLC following the death of her mother. Why are some events are a trigger for some people, that is the $64,000 question, isn't it? What lies buried that was never quite right inside of these people. Does it always come out with such devastating results for everyone, I wonder. Or do some manage through luck or grace spare themselves?
thank you for the insight.
NLF
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. ---Leonardo da Vinci
