My husband and I are both dealing with aging parents who need increasing care and we have completely different approaches to family obligation that are starting to create resentment between us. He thinks I'm too enmeshed with my family and I think he's too detached from his, but we need to figure out how to support each other instead of judging each other's choices.
More people experience this than they realize.
Competing values around family responsibility are creating division precisely when mutual support is most needed.
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