My spouse and I are both dealing with aging parents and we keep having the same fight about how much we should be doing for them, but underneath I think we're actually fighting about completely different ideas of what we owe our families. Neither of us has said what we really believe about duty and independence.
More people experience this than they realize.
Practical disagreements about family obligations often mask deeper philosophical differences about duty, autonomy, and what we owe the people who raised us.
“Where Are You with Faith, Spirituality & Meaning-Making?”
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