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How caregiving creates identity that dies with the patient

I was my wife's caregiver for two years before she died and now I don't know what to do with my hands or my time or myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When love becomes a way of being, the beloved's death can leave us strangers to ourselves.

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“Where Are You with Death of a loved one — the immediate experience?”

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