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When Caregiving Consumes Your Identity and Relationships

I moved in with my elderly mother to help care for her but I feel like I am disappearing into this role and losing my own identity and connections.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Self-sacrifice in service of love can paradoxically create resentment and isolation within the act of care itself.

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