What’s My Job? What’s My Role?

By age of two we start having tasks that are all our own to complete.  It may be to help with the family pet or to pick up our toys but we have them.  From a young age we understand that role of responsibility. That certain things are our job.  As we get older those roles change especially when caring for a loved one.  They can even be threatened when suddenly new people are added to a care team. 

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The Would’ve, Should’ve Game

We have all done this “If I had only done that, this wouldn’t have happened”.  Well in the case of losing a loved one we tend to go to the extreme.  This is the “What If” but a step higher when your trying to justify your feelings.

Most people play or start playing this game when they find out a loved one is very sick.  They run down a series of question and statements, that include these three words, with the intention to justify “how they” could have prevented the illness.  Continue reading “The Would’ve, Should’ve Game”