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Scenario

When caregiving for aging parents strains a marriage

My spouse and I are both burned out from caring for my elderly father who lives with us, and we're starting to resent each other because we handle stress differently and have different ideas about boundaries with my family. We both love my dad but this caregiving situation is slowly eroding our marriage and we can't see a way out that doesn't involve guilt.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love is pulling in competing directions as two people discover that shared values don't guarantee compatible coping strategies.

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