The reliable one.
The one who doesn’t ask for much.
And people praise you for it.
They call you mature.
Independent.
Resilient.
But they don’t see what it took to become that way.
Here’s what most people miss.
The strategy that kept you safe back then…
is the same one creating distance now.
When your mind learned, “I can only rely on myself,”
it never learned when to stop.