Meet the Lonely Lady. 🖤
She's surrounded by people who need her, and can name almost no one she can lean on the same way. She's the one who initiates, remembers, checks in, follows up. Always first. Rarely reciprocated.
Here's what's underneath it: she learned that being needed was the closest thing to being loved she could reliably get. So she over-invested in being needed, and under-invested in being known.
This is why "just build more community" doesn't fix her. She often has plenty of people around her already. The problem was never quantity, it's that she's never let herself be the one who's carried.
Who in your life have you let carry you the way you carry them? Tell me below.
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