It’s a story I am intimately familiar with because I have witnessed it in countless people I have met throughout my life and lived this reality myself. There are some who make it their purpose to give everything to others—to the point where they add to friends, family and strangers while subtracting from themselves—only to be doubled over in agony as the very people they helped take their kindness as an invitation to walk all over them like rugs.
At first boundaryless, givers eventually start putting up borders only for takers who are so caught up in their ego that the thought of being told no is seen as an ultimate act of betrayal. Suddenly, friendships or romantic relationships that worked perfectly as long as it was a one-way arrangement become intolerable for the creditor once the debtor starts to ask for reciprocity. That is when all hell breaks loose and love becomes exactly how it sounds phonetically when it is read backwards...continued...
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