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When parents get caught between feuding adult children

My adult children keep asking me to take sides in their ongoing conflicts with each other and I love them both but I don't know how to refuse without seeming like I don't care. Every family gathering becomes a minefield of old resentments I can't fix.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love multiplied across multiple people sometimes means disappointing everyone in service of the larger whole.

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