Sadness while selling house?

movilogo

Sale agreed on our house and I am quite happy that we are selling it (we already bought a bigger house).

But my wife is sad that we are selling it and she thinks old house was part of our memory.

Is she getting emotional or it is just normal?

freeisgood

Depends how long you lived there, if it was a year, probably over emotional, if 20 yrs and raising a family in the house, full of memories, then rightly so.

I will be a blubbery mess when eventually we come to sell my childhood home, which my elderly mother lives in.

sinizterguy

Sad like someone died, or sad like seeing someone off at the airport for a long trip ?

First is overly emo.

EmmyLou30

I got sad about leaving our old house as I'd lived there 9 years, it was my first house, then my husband moved in so that has memories and I put a lot of hours work into making it lovely. We're now renting it out but I think that might be even harder to deal with emotionally as you have to see it again, probably knocked about and spoilt after all the years of love I gave the place (pretty much guaranteed as I've already noticed damage to vulnerable areas that I took great care of like corners of kitchen units). I think it's pretty normal as she may well be excited about the new place, but she can be sad about the old one too.

mrsmazza

I was really sad, I loved my house and the area it was in. However I felt we needed a change had been in the house for nearly 14 years.Also needed somewhere bigger.

We moved 30 miles away, but now I don't,t miss my old house at all.
The only thing I miss is my lovely neighbours, and my dog walking friends.

PaulC5

EmmyLou30 wrote: »

I got sad about leaving our old house as I'd lived there 9 years, it was my first house, then my husband moved in so that has memories and I put a lot of hours work into making it lovely. We're now renting it out but I think that might be even harder to deal with emotionally as you have to see it again, probably knocked about and spoilt after all the years of love I gave the place (pretty much guaranteed as I've already noticed damage to vulnerable areas that I took great care of like corners of kitchen units). I think it's pretty normal as she may well be excited about the new place, but she can be sad about the old one too.

We are just about to embark on the same journey. We have decided to keep our first home and rent it out as we felt sad when we put it on the market and compared it to all the others we saw.

Fortunatly we have found something we like and we dont need the equity out of our house to buy it so going to give the landlord world a try but im not sure like you if it will be more emotional seeing it in a mess after a tentant leaves.

We have however only lived in it for 3 and 1/2 years but the attachment is still there.

jjlandlord

movilogo wrote: »

Is she getting emotional or it is just normal?

Obviously both.

movilogo

We lived there 8 years.

Tuscan

i kind of feel a house is just bricks and morter, but a home is whats inside the house and that you take with you when you move to your next house.

That said we are just in the process of moving after 14yrs here, had kids here etc so will be putting my theory to the test in the next few months lol

katejo

movilogo wrote: »

Sale agreed on our house and I am quite happy that we are selling it (we already bought a bigger house).

But my wife is sad that we are selling it and she thinks old house was part of our memory.

Is she getting emotional or it is just normal?

It's perfectly normal. I have become attached to various places in which I have lived. I remember some important events, including exact years by thinking about where I was living at the time.

Hoploz

For me it was when I got the house looking sparkling and beautiful for the estate agent to take the photos. I went in the next day and said I felt there had been a horrible mistake! I loved my house, we had renovated and extended to my exact specification etc, but love the new one even more