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When siblings disagree on aging parent care decisions

My brother and I are handling our mom's declining health and we have completely different approaches - he wants to keep her at home no matter what and I think assisted living might be better for everyone but we can't discuss it without it becoming about our childhood roles and old resentments.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Present-moment decisions become impossible when they're filtered through decades of family dynamics and unresolved sibling patterns.

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