Stop expecting me to carry your emotional confusion
One of the hardest lessons I've had to learn is that I am not responsible for other people's emotional confusion. I'm tired of relationships where nobody seems to know what they want. One day they want constant communication, the next they disappear. One day they expect you to listen for hours, the next you're "too much." Sometimes they only reach out when they need emotional support but have no space for your feelings in return. It becomes a cycle of mixed signals, emotional inconsistency, and constantly trying to guess what version of someone you'll get today. And honestly? I'm done with it. I've spent far too much energy trying to be understanding, patient, empathetic, and available, believing that if I just communicated better or loved people a little more, things would eventually become balanced. They rarely did. Instead, I found myself becoming an emotional support system for people who weren't emotionally available. I was expected to u...