Caregiving can feel like being folded into someone else’s life: their routines, their needs, their changes. Over time, many care partners describe a steady erosion of self, as if who they were before is slowly being pushed into the background.
The Weight of Mixed Emotions in Caregiving Caregiving for a person living with dementia doesn’t just stretch your time and energy. It shifts your emotional foundation in ways that others rarely see. This isn’t the kind of stress you can walk off. It’s not a bad day, or even a hard year. It’s a reconfiguration of love, grief , duty, and identity, all happening at once, and over time. You don’t just feel tired. You feel torn. There is the up and down of emotions and sometimes t
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