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When siblings face unequal caregiving responsibilities for aging parents

My mom is getting older and needs more help but my brother lives across the country and somehow it's just assumed I'll handle everything because I'm the daughter, and we've never actually discussed how unfair this feels or what we're each actually able to do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is operating on unstated assumptions about duty and capacity while someone's life is quietly reorganizing around needs no one explicitly agreed to meet.

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