We spend money to buy happiness, but we often spend emotional labor paying for others' refusal to grow. Here’s why your therapy bill might actually be someone else's debt.
You know this, Moorea. I think a lot of us end up in that role because we’re capable of seeing the nuance they refuse to acknowledge. I’m actually writing a piece for Wed. about exactly moving from 'magnet' to 'observer' of that type of behavior. Glad you’re here.
Soooo true !! It is one of life’s great, annoying ironies that the people who desperately need therapy rarely actually go. Instead, it’s their victims who end up in the chair.
Exactly. It’s a recurring, exhausting paradox. We end up paying the therapy tax for the emotional damage left by people who are far too invested in their own internal narratives to ever consider the wreckage they’re causing. Such a heavy burden to carry.
"someone else’s main-character energy" 🤣😆 I think I know that type. I'm like a magnet for them. 😭
Love your writing, Susan.
You know this, Moorea. I think a lot of us end up in that role because we’re capable of seeing the nuance they refuse to acknowledge. I’m actually writing a piece for Wed. about exactly moving from 'magnet' to 'observer' of that type of behavior. Glad you’re here.
Soooo true !! It is one of life’s great, annoying ironies that the people who desperately need therapy rarely actually go. Instead, it’s their victims who end up in the chair.
Exactly. It’s a recurring, exhausting paradox. We end up paying the therapy tax for the emotional damage left by people who are far too invested in their own internal narratives to ever consider the wreckage they’re causing. Such a heavy burden to carry.