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How caregiving responsibilities redefine time relationships

I have not been on time to anything since my second child was born three years ago and I have stopped apologizing because I realize punctuality is a luxury of people without dependents.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Caring for others often requires abandoning individual temporal control for responsive presence.

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