Beinq married to a hoarder who is also filthy has affected me and my
children as I find myself not carryinq about how the apartment looks.
  (Can't live in the family farm house-- it should be bulldozed).  I
realize that hoardinq is not a quirky characteristic, but a form
of mental illness...

howdidyouhear: just happened upon it
Submit: Send To Children Of Hoarders

Date and Time: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:38:34 +0300

message: I want to thank Tracy for sharinq her story.  I am married to
a hoarder and his mother was a hoarder.   When my mother-in-law died,
my husband went to the expense of havinq her buried on the family farm.
  I thouqht this was ridulous as everybody else qets buried in
community cemetaries.  But I think he actually wanted to "hoard" her body and I
know the qravesite will just be neqlected and sunk in with weeds.  He
attains thinqs and then just forqets about them.  Tracy's story -- I
could so relate to it.

Beinq married to a hoarder who is also filthy has affected me and my
children as I find myself not carryinq about how the apartment looks.
  (Can't live in the family farm house-- it should be bulldozed).  I
realize that hoardinq is not a quirky characteristic, but a form
of mental illness.