Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland
How We Live Now with Katherine May
The Importance of Caring for Your Mother
I've lived with that sense of resentment for you know I'm 58 so 58 years a long time yeah. My mother also lives with fairly severe mental illness diagnosed and she is really incapable of self-care and decision proper decision-making when it comes to her own safety. So certainly on the one hand I mean she's my mother I love her and I do feel a moral obligation to make sure that she's safe but I also often say that turning my back on my mother would be like turning myback on a two-year-old child running into oncoming traffic right? She has no one else I have no siblings she has no siblings there is no man in her life or anyone
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