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When couples volunteer together in hospice care with different emotional boundaries

My wife and I volunteer together at a hospice and lately she's been getting very attached to particular patients while I try to maintain more boundaries, and we're starting to judge each other's approaches to this work instead of understanding them.

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Two people doing compassionate work together are discovering that love and service can look different, and their different ways of caring are creating distance instead of understanding.

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