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When caregiving stress threatens a marriage

My elderly mother moved in with us six months ago and my spouse and I are both burning out from caregiving, but we have very different ideas about what help we need and we're starting to resent each other instead of working together. We're so focused on taking care of her that we've stopped taking care of our marriage.

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