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"you can't buy love", as they say... Nobody will take care of loved ones as well as kin, as onerous as that may be...
by umvi 1y ago
"you can't buy love", as they say... Nobody will take care of loved ones as well as kin, as onerous as that may be...
- busterarm 1y agoI'm sorry but this isn't true. I'm taking care of my 80+ year old mother with dementia and my brother and I pay people to come look in on her specifically because we can't be there for her like that. More specifically, she's a narcissist and extremely abusive and we just won't/can't put up with that. She needs way more than that too, but the money just isn't there. The entire situation is frustrating, exhausting and hopeless. She didn't provide for herself to live this long and probably will deteriorate over the next decade while we continue to not be able to provide her with good enough care. Looking ahead to the later years of my own life, I don't have any family to take care of me and don't expect to be wealthy. I'm looking at assisted suicide as the way out of that kind of aging. Honestly it all seems a bit fucked.