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After seven years of caregiving, I’m out.
Last Friday, I texted a friend who I care give for and told her I was running late.
She told me that she expected nothing less.
For me, it was the last straw in the abuse I’ve had to take for years and told her to fire me, so she texted me, “You’re fired.”
I know that for the entire time, I’ve been there, she’s been disappointed with me and she needs someone else.
I am also getting older and feel that it’s time for me to take care of myself but there doesn’t seem to be any acknowledgment of that.
In fact, during the pandemic, I had to travel across town on the train to get there and back.
I’ve gotten into fights, seen violence on the train, etc.
She told me then that she didn’t care because she wasn’t in my situation.
I’ve held onto her line of thinking and feel it reveals what she thinks about me.
She’s called me a martyr.
Also, whenever I cook for her, she gets annoyed when I ask her what I should do.
It all turns into a circular argument and I don’t want to do this anymore.
I feel that I’ve wasted seven years of my life and in those seven, I’ve become…
