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When love includes wanting suffering to end

I'm watching my parents age and become frail and I feel like a terrible person for sometimes wishing it would just be over.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Compassion and exhaustion intertwine in ways that create moral confusion.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist grief — impermanence as practice?”

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