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If You Cared: A Memoir of Family Loss, and What We Owe One Another and Ourselves
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ISBN13: 9798170181698
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Everyone talks about caring for the people they love. Nobody talks quite so honestly about what it costs. If You Cared is a brutally honest, sometimes heartbreaking and occasionally fucking hilarious journey into what happens when one person becomes the ONLY one who stays.
It begins long before the caregiving does with childhood, family, emotional neglect and the experiences that quietly shape a person into someone who cannot simply walk away when others do. Then comes the reality.
It begins long before the caregiving does with childhood, family, emotional neglect and the experiences that quietly shape a person into someone who cannot simply walk away when others do. Then comes the reality.
Ageing grandparents. Declining health. Exhaustion. Grief. Sleepless nights. Unimaginable tenderness. Ridiculous situations. Dark humour. Difficult decisions. And the strange, bewildering shit show that can unfold when responsibility falls on the shoulders of the person who said, yes I'll do that for you. Along the way, there are reflections on family, abandonment, resentment, loyalty, love and the complicated emotions nobody puts on a sympathy card. There are also the people who weren't there when it mattered but somehow still found plenty to say about how it should have been done. This isn't a guide to caregiving.
It isn't a story about saints.
And it certainly isn't a neat little tale about finding closure and moving on. It is an honest account of what happens when caring for someone you love changes your mental health, your relationships, your sense of identity and, ultimately, your understanding of life itself. Because sometimes caring is beautiful.
Sometimes it is brutal.
Sometimes you laugh at exactly the moment you probably shouldn't.
And sometimes, after giving everything you have, you're left with the biggest questions of all: What does a life mean?
What do we owe the people we love?
And is closure something we find or something we learn to live without? If You Cared is for anyone who has ever loved someone enough to stay when staying was fucking hard.
It isn't a story about saints.
And it certainly isn't a neat little tale about finding closure and moving on. It is an honest account of what happens when caring for someone you love changes your mental health, your relationships, your sense of identity and, ultimately, your understanding of life itself. Because sometimes caring is beautiful.
Sometimes it is brutal.
Sometimes you laugh at exactly the moment you probably shouldn't.
And sometimes, after giving everything you have, you're left with the biggest questions of all: What does a life mean?
What do we owe the people we love?
And is closure something we find or something we learn to live without? If You Cared is for anyone who has ever loved someone enough to stay when staying was fucking hard.
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