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My 90-year-old grandma has always been strong-willed, and I\u2019ve admired that my whole life. I love her deeply, and for years I\u2019ve been the one helping her with groceries\u2014every week, no matter the weather, picking up what she needs and dropping it off at her door. It felt like a small way to give back for everything she\u2019s done for our family.<\/p>\n
But lately, something has changed.<\/p>\n
Her requests have become more demanding and expensive\u2014specific brands, imported fruits, pastries from across town. What used to be simple errands have turned into time-consuming, costly tasks. Then the calls started coming during my workday, asking me to drop everything and bring items \u201cright now.\u201d<\/p>\n
I still want to help her. She\u2019s 90, and I know she depends on me. But I can\u2019t ignore how overwhelming it\u2019s started to feel. It\u2019s no longer just about helping\u2014it feels expected, even pressured.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m torn between love and boundaries. I don\u2019t want to disappoint her, but I also can\u2019t keep putting my own time, work, and finances second.<\/p>\n
Sometimes the hardest part isn\u2019t doing too little\u2014it\u2019s realizing you\u2019ve been doing too much, and not knowing how to say \u201cenough\u201d without hurting someone you love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My 90-year-old grandma has always been strong-willed, and I\u2019ve admired that my whole life. I love her deeply, and for years I\u2019ve been the one helping her with groceries\u2014every week, no matter the weather, picking up what she needs and dropping it off at her door. It felt like a small way to give back …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5663,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}