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Eli, who’s married but in a complicated open relationship situation with his increasingly resentful wife, would rather not have to choose sides in the vaccine mandate debate.

Sure, the Republican Party still had a large and resentful voter base that refused to die off or shut up, but its demographic was aging and increasingly irrelevant, or so it seemed.

From Salon

"She's caring but resentful, struggling with relationships and not fulfilled," she explains.

From BBC

Upper management at these companies tend to distrust their employees, she said, and hold “outdated definitions of productivity” — an approach that, naturally, makes employees resentful and inhibits healthy communication.

From Salon

Despite providing unprecedented levels of support, though, most boomers weren’t resentful of their kids.

From Salon

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