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When temporary family arrangements become permanent problems

My spouse and I moved in with my parents temporarily during COVID and now two years later we're all still here and nobody wants to be the first one to say this isn't working anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

What started as mutual support has become mutual resentment, but everyone's too invested to acknowledge the shift.

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