I don’t feel heard. I feel ignored. Like everything I’ve given just gets dismissed, over and over again!
Her voice cracks.
Not from drama. From truth.
Because when one person keeps showing up - soft, clear, expressive -
…and the other keeps disappearing behind silence, distance, or delay…
there’s only one thing you end up feeling:
Abandoned. While still in the room.
And that messes with your head.
Because you think: Did I ask for too much? Am I too much?
But here’s the thing:
Your expressiveness is not the problem.
His discomfort with your emotions is a mirror - not a measurement.
And if he judges you for feeling, he’s not seeing you. He’s projecting himself onto you -
…and calling it “logic.”
And the more you try to support him, explain yourself, or “help him open up”…
…the more you betray your own emotional safety.
Let me say it clearly:
Any relationship you have to carry alone is not worthy of your life.
And if you have to shut yourself down to keep someone close -
then love has already left the building.
So if you’re done overgiving,
done being the emotional grown-up,
done waiting for breadcrumbs…
What’s one thing you’ve said - or wanted to say - to someone who stayed closed, while you stayed open?
DM me ‘I’m done’ if you’re ready to stop overfunctioning and start choosing yourself again.
Invigorate