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When caregiving breeds resentment toward someone you love

I'm caring for my mother who has dementia and she doesn't remember me most days and I feel guilty that I'm starting to resent her and wish it would just end.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The erosion of reciprocal relationship creates a love that must sustain itself without recognition or return.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Conflict in love — how every tradition addresses it?”

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