Elissa Altman on navigating the Motherland
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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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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