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When extended family arrangements become permanent

My mother-in-law moved in with us during COVID and never left and my spouse keeps saying 'it's temporary' but it's been two years and I'm starting to resent both of them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Three adults are living in an arrangement that no one explicitly chose, with different assumptions about what was agreed to.

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