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Why success can feel like betrayal of your family's struggles

My Salvadoran father worked three jobs so I could go to law school and now I make more in a month than he made in a year and the guilt is eating me alive.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic mobility can create psychological distance that makes gratitude feel indistinguishable from abandonment.

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