This speaks to how exhausting it is to keep reshaping yourself just to be treated with basic care. The reminder that the environment matters as much as the individual feels both freeing and validating. It makes space for people to stop blaming their personality for someone else’s harm. There is a lot of relief in knowing you do not have to erase yourself to be worthy of love.
This speaks to how exhausting it is to keep reshaping yourself just to be treated with basic care. The reminder that the environment matters as much as the individual feels both freeing and validating. It makes space for people to stop blaming their personality for someone else’s harm. There is a lot of relief in knowing you do not have to erase yourself to be worthy of love.
Absolutely. Not only it’s exhausting, but as you mention, it’s a capitulation of the self in front of an environment that treats others with cruelty.