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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. Thank you all for compassionate and helpful response. We are trying our best to upack and make the new house home as soon as possible... I believe time will heal.[/quote]

I feel the same as your 8yo and I'm 44!! I sold my first home about 6 weeks ago and resisted moving for YEARS because of my emotional attachment to the house.  My late father did all of the work on it and I had some really precious, final memories there with him.  Other major milestones in my life in that house too.  And I redecorated/renovated the whole thing as a labor of love.  It took me being really excited about something else, my upcoming new construction, for me to focus on not being sad.  I needed a new focus.  So, as others suggested, get your daughter heavily involved in unpacking, decorating, choosing things not only for her room but other places in the house.  Maybe plant a garden when the weather gets better (do research now while it's cold) and other activities to focus on the gain of a new place, not loss of an old one.

And, funny enough, my kids have ZERO emotional attachment to our old house.  I ask them if they miss the house.  Nope - they are looking forward to the new one.

Good luck.
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