Sometimes it was.
But constant rescue also prevented the people around me from facing what their choices actually cost.
When I stepped away, everything collapsed quickly.
Not because I created their problems.
Because I stopped preventing those problems from reaching them.
That distinction mattered.
Someone else’s consequences are not automatically yours to carry because you love them.
You are not responsible for solving every problem you didn’t create.
You don’t have to destroy your own stability to keep another adult comfortable.
That isn’t loyalty.
It is self-neglect.
If I reduced
