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How to navigate intimate care needs when parent-child roles reverse

My mother refuses to let anyone else help her shower or dress and I am a forty-five year old man and this feels wrong for both of us

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The sacred boundaries of the body become complicated terrain when dependency demands crossing lines never meant to be crossed.

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