Stop betraying your own boundaries for people who only disrespect them.
The people who you never truly feel like it’s possible for you to be your full self around.
The people who are nowhere to be found when you need them the most.
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The people who you never seem to be good enough for.
Stop bending over backward for people who are never there to help you stand back up when you fall.
Stop making yourself smaller for people who hate to see you take up any space at all.
Stop staying quiet to keep the peace with people who do nothing but disrupt yours.
Stop overexplaining yourself to people who have already decided they do not care to understand you.
Stop suppressing your feelings to make people who repeatedly wound you more comfortable.
Stop betraying your own boundaries for people who only disrespect them.
Stop pretending you dont have needs for people who would always say those needs were too much.
Stop maintaining relationships with people when you know its destroying you to hold on.
Because when you do these things, you abandon yourself.
You will feel like a stranger in your own skin.
Instead, theyll adore a character you wrote and youll hate yourself for it.
But kindly know the right people wouldneverask you to shrink as a bartering chip for their love.
They wouldneverask you to hold those messy, fucked up, wonderful pieces of yourself hostage.
Because if you dont, you will lose yourself and that is a far worse fate.
But just know that you will never lose the right people when you do this.
In fact, you will make more room for the people who are meant to be here.
The people who want to stay.
