by External Article | Feb 3, 2023 | Caring for a Parent |
Caring for a loving and grateful aging parent can be overwhelming at times. So, imagine what it’s like caring for someone who isn’t just struggling physically, but is also mean, manipulative, and highly self-involved. Unfortunately, some people don’t need to imagine,... 
by External Article | Aug 15, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Millennial Generation |
For my whole life I have lived in a family where transparency about my mother and her illness was elusive to us all. We’ve all managed to say so much about so little over the years–my mother has struggled with mental health issues her whole life, but we... 
by External Article | Apr 2, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Housing |
My partner has extreme (and untreated) anxiety, depression, and an unbelievable amount of insecurity that makes her jealous, petty, confrontational, and not-at-all trusting. She’s come from a rough past, with abuse, and despite it, or maybe in spite of it, has... 
by External Article | Sep 25, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Grief |
It’s hard for Adam Smith, 37, to say whether Barbara had been a good mother. Growing up, he and his sister Susan always had food on the table, a roof over their heads. Still, he says, she’d always had a mean streak and regularly belittled him for no cause.... 
by External Article | Apr 11, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving, Sandwich Generation |
Though not technically estranged, our relationship was tenuous at best, stitched together only by threads of my guilt and desire not to be someone who had no contact with her mother. She had driven my father, my sister, her siblings and her friends away decades ago.... 
by Cori Carl | Sep 14, 2018 | Caregiving Relationships, Caring for a Parent, Finding Caregiver Support |
I hear a lot of comments about how their other relatives refuse to help with caregiving, so it all falls on them. Sometimes the reasons for this unfortunate family dynamic are not a mystery. Paragraph 1: okParagraph 2: okParagraph 3: waitParagraph 4: OHParagraph 5:... 
by Guest Author | Apr 24, 2017 | Caregiver Stories |
This isn’t going to be a popular opinion. I’m not here to get you angry. If you don’t want to read about carees who are emotionally abusive, skip this post. Why is it somehow acceptable for people who need caregivers to be emotionally abusive? Some... 
by External Article | May 19, 1996 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying, Grief |
I made many choices that night; some were smart, some stupid, some crazy. I believed, deep down, my father would indeed kill himself, sooner or later; I knew my mother was in danger [H]e knelt on the floor, put the barrel of a .22 rifle in his mouth, and squeezed the... 
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