How Taking Care Of An Elderly Parent Affects Your Marriage
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Julia Austin
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How to get through it
While you do care tremendously about your parent, you need to set up some boundaries. Naturally, you need to be available for emergency phone calls. But discontent over breakfast is not an emergency. If you need to, silence all of your phones until you wake up in the morning. Give your parent’s nurse the number to a cell phone or special line you set up for emergencies only. Remember that you need to take care of yourself if you’re going to take care of your parent, and you cannot do that if you’re woken up at 5 in the morning.
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