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How to accept help when roles should be reversed

My grandmother sends me money every month from her social security check and I know she needs it more than I do but I also can't survive without it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic desperation inverts natural relationships and forces dependence that violates our sense of how care should flow.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Economic justice — what it requires?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.