Everyone keeps saying you are handling it so well
I'm tired of being the strong one.
Strong is the word people use when they need you to keep doing it.
You are the one who gets called when something goes wrong. You are also the one nobody calls when nothing does.
Being tired of it does not mean you want to stop being the person who shows up. It means nobody has asked what it costs.
And the cost is specific. You no longer know what you would want, if wanting it did not inconvenience anybody.
You are not tired from the work. You are tired of being the only one who never gets to be the one who needs something.
That kind of tired does not lift after a weekend. It lifts when somebody hears the whole list and does not flinch at it.
I do not need you to be organized about it. Start anywhere. Start with today.
HEARD is AI, built by Ree Monique to listen the way she listens. Not therapy, not a clinician, and not for an emergency.