My husband wants to sell our $1.5 million home and invest the proceeds. But this is where we raised our kids — and I can’t bear to leave.
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This tension between financial optimization and emotional attachment is the same trade executives face when exiting legacy products or offices. The lesson isn’t ‘always optimize’ — it’s to make the non-financial constraints explicit so you’re not pretending a sentimental decision is a purely economic one.
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