I wonder when I’ll stop calling everything my Mom’s?

She’s been dead over two years. Everything is in my name. But I still feel like it’s hers. She built all this, but never got to complete it. The man she married left it in dire need of every possible repair before he dumped it and ran. Now here I am trying to fix and finish all the beauty she created. It just doesn’t feel like mine because I still feel her with me.

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Muthafukajones · 46-50, M

I feel the same way about my parents stuff even though they’ve been gone 10 years. It’s the holding on to the idea that it’s theirs that keeps them with you but you have to find another way to hold them in your heart and recognize that these things are now yours. It’s very hard. I can barely do it now but I am slowly realizing that these things are mine now.