Gransnet forums

Chat

Page 2 of 2 | First | Previous | Next | Last
| Flip | Customise |

Today I have finally cleared out.....

(27 Posts)
Add comment | Report
moomin Mon 15-Apr-13 17:40:44

Oh Gally how very sad for you. I've not experienced loss in the same way as you ("just" separation then divorce), but I kept my Mum's handbag with her powder compact and bits and pieces including a card I made for her as a small girl for many, many years (she died when I was 18) and only managed to get rid of it 3 or 4 years ago, it was my last piece of something so personal to her, so I can understand just a tiny bit of what you are feeling at the moment. flowers

Add comment | Report
Gally Mon 15-Apr-13 17:35:19

...some of J's things from his wardrobe. It has taken 14 months for me to steel myself to do it. I was in the bedroom and for some strange reason I felt compelled to start taking his lovely suits out - well most of them - and now I want to put them all back in again. I feel as if I am letting him down packing them all into bin bags for the charity shop. Everything is a memory - the suit he wore to DD3's wedding 4 years ago, the suit he bought in Paris, the old trousers he wore at weekends, his dinner suit (and the new bow tie which I had bought for his last Christmas) the T-shirt DD2 gave him from Sydney, and so it goes on. I kept burying my head in them all trying to retrieve his smell, but it had gone. Am I doing the right thing? I don't know. I don't need the space but he isn't coming back to use them, so why keep them......... sad

Page 2 of 2 | First | Previous | Next | Last
| Flip | Customise |