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How Do You Deal With a Narcissistic Aging Parent?

How Do You Deal With a Narcissistic Aging Parent?

by External Article | Feb 3, 2023 | Caring for a Parent | 0 comments

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,...
Living with My Mother’s Mental Illness

Living with My Mother’s Mental Illness

by External Article | Aug 15, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Millennial Generation | 1 comment

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...
Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Leave An Abusive Relationship?

Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Leave An Abusive Relationship?

by External Article | Apr 2, 2020 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Romantic Partner, Housing | 0 comments

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...
After His Mother Died, Adam Smith Found The Secret in the Freezer

After His Mother Died, Adam Smith Found The Secret in the Freezer

by External Article | Sep 25, 2019 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Generation X, Grief | 0 comments

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....
A Gift? I’d Return My Mom’s Alzheimer’s If I Could

A Gift? I’d Return My Mom’s Alzheimer’s If I Could

by External Article | Apr 11, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving, Sandwich Generation | 0 comments

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....
Why people say NO to caregiving

Why people say NO to caregiving

by Cori Carl | Sep 14, 2018 | Caregiving Relationships, Caring for a Parent, Finding Caregiver Support | 0 comments

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:...
Why do we accept this behavior?

Why do we accept this behavior?

by Guest Author | Apr 24, 2017 | Caregiver Stories | 66 comments

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...
Suicide is desperate. It is hostile. It is tragic. But mostly, it is a bloody mess.

Suicide is desperate. It is hostile. It is tragic. But mostly, it is a bloody mess.

by External Article | May 19, 1996 | Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying, Grief | 0 comments

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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