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When caregiver love meets caregiver exhaustion

I've been taking care of my husband with dementia for three years and yesterday I caught myself hoping he would just die so I could have my life back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The collision between devotion and self-preservation creates unbearable moral conflict.

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