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When caregiving requires identity regression

I moved back home to care for my sick mother and went back in the closet because this small town has not changed since I left twenty years ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Family obligation sometimes demands the performance of outdated versions of self that feel like betrayal.

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