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How to handle conflicting promises to family members

My wife wants to put her mother in assisted living but I promised my mother-in-law I'd never let that happen and now I'm caught between two women I love.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing loyalties can make moral clarity impossible to achieve.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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