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When three generations live together and everyone is struggling to adjust

My wife and I moved my mom in with us after her stroke and we all agreed it would work but now we're arguing about everything from her care to our privacy to money and I think we each blame the other two for not adjusting better.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Multiple people with legitimate needs are trapped in a system where meeting one person's needs seems to threaten another's, and no one has learned how to negotiate shared sacrifice.

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