agreed. I'd even be inclined to take it further and suggest that once leaving high school, pressures and stresses related to self sustainability (being employab

agreed. I'd even be inclined to take it further and suggest that once leaving high school, pressures and stresses related to self sustainability (being employable, financial concerns, housing, etc etc) would become more real than any previous family memory. Also, wouldnt an understanding that materializes as one gets older of the back story into each memory story (with the frame that memory stories here as having a positive impact) have the potential to change the frame of the memory, which decreases the likelihood of it being remembered? As in, certain memories are pretty great until ypu understand how it came to be that way, in which case either the back story becomes more signigicant or it becomes more mediocore than remembered. And mediocrity is easily forgotten... I'd also suppose that as people move on with their lives, people relate to each other via shared stories... family stories have little meaning to those not involved, and so have little impact in "fitting in" in the rest of society. As that dawns on individuals leaving home, so are such stories repressed until they more actively need to be remembered.