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When aging parents test your capacity for presence

My elderly father repeats the same stories every time I visit and I feel myself getting impatient even though I know his memory is failing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Impatience with repetition reveals the ego's demand for novelty when love requires meeting each moment fresh.

Ideas that help explain it
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