She currently cares day in and day out for her 75-year-old father, who is in poor health and has had to deal with a whole host of problems he couldn’t have imagined. At the same time, she Karin works full time, has three children, two of whom are still young, and the couple is on the verge of breaking up. “I’m constantly dead tired and stressed, but there’s no escape: I have to tough it out and deal with everything.”
Karin’s father visited his daughter in Brussels last autumn, but didn’t realize he had just survived a stroke while standing. The daughter took her father straight from the airport to the hospital, where he stayed for six weeks. There were several critical moments where…
Karin’s story, which is a typical example of the burden that many middle-aged people, and often especially women, have to bear, read more in the article. Valuable advice is provided by a psychologist and couples therapist Aita Keerberg. What are 8 survival tricks that make carrying a heavy load easier?
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2023-12-16 08:00:03
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