Tonight I have questions that I don't have answers for.
How does one remove themselves from several situations where they are a doormat for people who don't respect boundaries?
Even when those boundaries are vocalized and established, they are guilt-tripped out of existence.
When one's inherent want to help others is taken advantage of and taken for granted, and the absence of those actions is taken as an attack… how do you fight that?
My approach to un-reconcilable disagreements in the past has been to remove myself from the situation. But that's not possible in this situation, not without completely uprooting my life.
The things that I thought refilled my cup, were the same things that are actively keeping me down. My hobbies for the most part do little to serve me, and more to serve others at my expense.
Not to say the hobbies I've cultivated don't have their value in knowledge, but they aren't as fulfilling as I once thought they were and no longer serve their intended purpose.