[QUOTE=Peckish;8607047]I wonder how much of the OP's personal feelings were inserted into her post. It kind of came across as if the husband was uncaring and just wanted all her stuff gone. I wonder if it was actually more along the lines of having all that stuff around was a constant reminder of his incredibly painful loss, and he simply didn't have the bandwidth to deal with it. In general, men are much more lost after losing a spouse than women are, and they also have a tendency to shut down emotionally in order to "be strong"./QUOTE]
The husband - as told to me and several other quilt friends, many times, long before she passed - had absolutely no interest in anything to do with her skill, her quilts, her art. He had no interest that I ever saw either when she was alive . And his actions after her death matched those pre-death comments and observations.