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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have had to have a pointed Come to Jesus discussion with my own relative.

"Listen - you are not senile. You are a fully capable, grown ass adult. I have my own family and a job I need to take care of. Your job, right now, it to manage your own happiness and your own entertainment. You have money that you earned in your life, at your disposal. It is now there to help you manage your own care needs, and your needs for entertainment and social life. I can help you connect with people, or research things, but it has to be YOUR job to actually reach out and make connections with people and find things that are enjoyable. It can't be me all the time. Again, you are a fully capable, cogent adult. I expect that you can and will manage your own social life."[/quote]

Wow you are mean. I absolutely help my parents by arranging visits with relatives and family and putting movies on for them to watch and giving them books[/quote]

Sure, if you feel like it, and if they appreciate it. But now imagine that they want to watch a movie, but insist that you (and only you - it has to be you) have to be the one to come and put it one for them and watch it with them - not just occasionally but twice a week. They refuse to consider someone else could help them - a hired aide, a neighbor, a friend, someone from the facility they live in. No, it has to be you, or else they won't even watch it. [/quote]

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