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When doing the right thing feels like betrayal

I had to put my elderly mother in memory care and she looks at me with such hurt and confusion during visits that I have started going less often out of guilt and rage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Necessary choices can wound us with their own rightness when love and duty demand what feels like abandonment.

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