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When setting healthy boundaries feels like betraying family values

My therapist says I need to set boundaries with my sick mother but she raised me to believe that family always comes first and I do not know who I am if I am not taking care of everyone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Self-preservation and family loyalty can become opposing forces that tear at the fabric of identity.

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