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When career success feels like family betrayal

I got promoted at work but it means longer hours and my elderly mother says I'm abandoning her and I feel torn between two different kinds of responsibility.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Growth often requires disappointing people whose approval once defined our worth.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian filial piety — examined?”

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