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Yes. I know this last year or so with your mum has been stressful for you. You at least live quite a long distance away and can retreat to your own life and friends at the end of the day. I had a year or more where going to work every day was a struggle, where towards the end (the last six months or so) I couldn't go out at all in the evening, where going out for more than an hour or so even in the day became impossible. I had ten years where meals had to be served precisely on time at times that were not convenient to me, living in a house where I had no say in how it was decorated or arranged, full of inconvenient things that I didn't like, with the television or radio on full blast all the time to stations or shows that I didn't choose, during which time I had one, count them, ONE holiday away, and one three day trip to a conference, and those had to be pre-planned with the detail of a military campaign. I could go on. So, yes, I think that I, at least, have had enough for more than one lifetime.