My sister and I are dealing with our aging parents together but we have completely different ideas about what it means to be a good daughter - she thinks we should sacrifice everything to take care of them, I think we need to maintain boundaries to be helpful long-term. Every decision becomes a referendum on our values and we're both exhausted from judging each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trying to honor the same underlying value through incompatible approaches, creating conflict where there could be complementarity.
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