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Why caregiving resentment creates such profound guilt

My disabled sister lives with me and I love her but I also resent her and I hate myself for feeling this way because she did not choose this either.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The simultaneous presence of love and resentment toward a vulnerable person creates an internal conflict that feels morally unacceptable.

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