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Why helping difficult people tests compassion limits

My neighbor is elderly and isolated but also difficult and demanding and I don't know how much I'm obligated to help someone who pushes everyone away.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Moral obligation to assist vulnerable person conflicts with self-protection from toxic behavior.

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