My mom and I are her primary caregivers for my grandmother with dementia and we keep getting into fights about how to handle her episodes — my mom wants to redirect and distract while I think we should acknowledge what she's actually feeling, but our different approaches are confusing grandma and making everything harder.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people loving the same person are discovering that good intentions and different philosophies can create more suffering when not reconciled.
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