Sandra's Childhood Observation

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Sandra went from a thriving, caring, and compassionate woman to being bitter and resentful. For 33 years, Sandra was a teacher, has four children, and after her retirement, she had dreams of traveling and volunteering (Zastrow,2013). Sandra has found she is unable to follow her dreams. She feels an obligation to care for her husband who will not do anything to help himself. Sandra’s husband was both physically and verbally abusive to her and their children, an alcoholic, and now has cirrhosis of the liver (Zastrow,2013). On the one hand, she wishes he would die so she can be free to fulfill her dreams, yet on the other hand she feels guilty when she thinks like that. Sandra has worked too hard all of her life to get what she has so she will