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How to navigate caregiving when parent relationships are complicated

My mother and I have always had a complicated relationship and now that she's getting older and more dependent, I feel obligated to help her but also resentful, and neither of us knows how to talk about the years of hurt between us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Duty and love become confused when the person who needs our care is also the source of our deepest wounds.

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