Dear Bella:

He said he didn’t know why it bothered you to have his belongings with you. For a decent person, if he was one, it shouldn’t matter why it bothers you. All that should matter, in the situation, is that it bothers you. And then, a decent person, would remove what is bothering you.

Him being angry at you leads me toward possibility # 4 above. Anger motivates a person to hurt whom they are angry with.

But possibility # 5 is not an impossibility in my mind, not because of love in his heart but because he may need to move back in with you.

* The items that seem sentimental to you may not be for him. Maybe he doesn’t want the old photos of his deceased parents because he doesn’t want to see those photos. Maybe it is understandable that he doesn’t want those photos (maybe they were bad people…).

anita