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How to handle mixed feelings about caregiving responsibilities

I'm taking care of my aging father and I love him but I also resent him and then I hate myself for feeling resentful.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complexity of simultaneously feeling love and burden creates shame around natural ambivalence, adding emotional suffering to practical challenges.

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