loyalties

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your feelings of support or duty towards someone or something:

My loyalties to my family come before anything else.

divided loyalties (= feelings of support for two different and opposing people or things)

Party members are finding their loyalties sorely tested.

Although they were working for the Americans, their loyalties were very much in doubt.

She felt a real tug of loyalties when she was offered a job with another company.