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When Your Parent's Pain Becomes Your Prison

My mother calls me crying every day about her divorce and I feel guilty when I don't answer but I'm drowning in her pain and forgetting how to feel my own feelings.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The weight of another's suffering can eclipse our own emotional landscape until we lose touch with the boundaries between their heart and ours.

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