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When a dying parent asks for promises you can't keep

My mom is dying and keeps asking me to promise I'll take care of my alcoholic brother forever and I don't know how to say no to a dying person but I also can't destroy my own life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of deathbed promises collides with the reality of self-preservation and boundaries.

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