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How to Respond to Deathbed Promises You Cannot Keep

My mother is dying and keeps asking me to promise I will take care of my alcoholic brother forever, but I know I cannot and will not do that.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love for the dying can collide with honest assessment of our own limitations and boundaries.

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