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When couples clash over caring for aging parents

My husband and I are both dealing with aging parents and we keep having the same fight about obligation versus self-preservation, but we're really fighting about what it means to be a good person and neither of us wants to say that out loud.

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Two people are discovering that their deepest moral intuitions are incompatible, but the conversation is disguised as a practical disagreement about caregiving.

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