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When loving someone feels like emotional labor

My mother has been calling me selfish and ungrateful for moving across the country, and I keep trying to love her through it but I am exhausted from always being the one who forgives.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You are confusing unconditional love with unconditional tolerance of harm.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Agape — unconditional love across traditions?”

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