Strong attachments to objects rather than people?

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Yes, I'm very much attached to lots of my possessions, the ones I've had for many years. This includes both things such as my stuffed toys which might be less surprising to be attached to and very mundane household items.

I do remember an occasion a few years ago when I thought that one of the spoons I always eat with had been accidentally thrown away and was crying and dissolving into a panic attack until I found it.

Coming across an old familiar object that I thought had been lost is like finding an old friend to me.

Icheb:

That doesn't quite work for me. Even if the replacement object is identical in every way... it still isn't the same object. It doesn't have the same 'soul', for want of a better word. I could grow to like the new object for itself, but it would never mean the same as the original did. People have said to me, "But it's exactly the same!" and all I could say was, "Yes, but it's not mine."

Do stuffed animals and other things with faces count as "objects"?

One of the members of our family is Humphrey, my son's stuffed elephant. It hardly seems right to call him an object, because he is well-loved, and has a personality.

And I've got a Lego mini-figure who I love very much. He's the "actor" who plays the character in my avatar, and is now going to appear in a different form in my next movie. I even knitted him a little blanket to put over him in his little bed at night. I would never let him lie on the table, face down, all day, because it seems like he should be able to look around. Sure, I know he's just a plastic toy, but still.... I can hardly think of him as an object. I mean, look at him.




I've got a pretty strong attachment to my husband and children, but that's about it for people.

Subjective attachments to objects topic

Everything I own has meaning, and some objects have more meaning than others.

But my three kids have the most meaning (but they are not objects! )