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When siblings clash over caring for aging parents

My sister and I both promised we'd take care of our mom as she gets older, but we have completely different ideas about what that means and we're starting to resent each other instead of working together. Every conversation about Mom's future turns into a fight about our past.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of shared responsibility is revealing old wounds and different values that were never reconciled.

Ideas that help explain it
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