In Caring for Others You’re Caring for Yourself
Take author Eleanor Gaccetta’s experience as an example. In her book One Caregiver’s Journey, she shares how being her mother’s caregiver was a truthfully self-sacrificing task to put herself into. By doing it for almost a decade, it can be deduced that she wholeheartedly did it with her love for her mother. However, who’s to say that offering her time for years isn’t a byproduct or an unconscious sacrifice she made because she felt indebted to her mother? Not to mention, caregiving can be an extremely self-fulfilling task…