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When long-term caregiving responsibilities tear apart your other relationships

I have been caring for my disabled brother for twenty years and I am exhausted but he has no one else and I cannot abandon him even though it is destroying my marriage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Duty to one person can become betrayal of others, creating impossible choices between competing loyalties.

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