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When siblings disagree about caring for aging parents

My sister and I both moved back to our hometown to help with Mom's declining health but we have completely different ideas about boundaries and care - she thinks I'm not doing enough, I think she's burning herself out and enabling Mom's manipulation. Every conversation about Mom turns into a fight about us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The weight of caring for someone you both love can expose every old wound between you, making it impossible to know if you're fighting about them or about yourselves.

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