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When family caregiving resurfaces old sibling dynamics

My mom is dying and my two siblings and I are trying to coordinate her care but we all have different ideas about what she needs and we keep getting into fights that feel like they're really about old family dynamics. We want to show up for her but we can't seem to work together.

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What we've seen

Crisis strips away adult personas and returns us to childhood patterns precisely when mature collaboration is most needed.

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