05/02/2026
There is a kind of tired that comes from trying to be enough for everyone.
You gave more than you had, then blamed yourself when they still wanted more.
You softened your words, swallowed your hurt, kept the peace, and called it love.
You became useful, dependable, forgiving, easy to need.
And for a long time, you thought their disappointment meant something was wrong with you.
But maybe you were never too little, too hard to love, or too much to handle.
Maybe you were always enough.
You were just surrounded by people who needed you to keep doubting it, so they could keep taking from you.
That is a hard truth to sit with, but it can also set something down inside you.
You do not have to earn your place by emptying yourself anymore.
You are allowed to come back to the woman who was there all along.
Nothing about her was missing.
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