Is it normal to keep ex's stuff after marriage?
So my wife and I have been married 5 years now and I found out she still has this box in the garage with letters and little gifts from her ex before me like a concert ticket stub and this dumb necklace he gave her. When I asked she said it’s just memories and it doesn’t mean anything now. But come on it’s been over a decade why keep that? My dad would’ve lost it if my mom had kept something like that from some other man. She says I’m being insecure and comparing her to my dad but it just feels off you know? Like if I said I kept love letters from an old flame she’d be furious. Part of me thinks it’s no big deal but then another part hates that she can just casually hold on to pieces of someone else like it’s nothing. I don’t want to make a fight but it makes me feel like maybe I’m not really the only one in her heart or something. I don’t even know what I’m supposed to do with this feeling, I just need to not feel so stupid for being bothered by it, maybe? Idk. She says it’s not like she talks to him or anything she hasn’t seen him since like 2010