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When Keeping Promises to Loved Ones Becomes Emotionally Unbearable

I promised my grandmother I would visit her every week but I have been making excuses for two months because her dementia makes the visits so painful.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Commitment to others sometimes conflicts with our psychological capacity to sustain that commitment.

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