You cook.

You organise.

You support.

You carry everyone’s emotions.

You say yes when you want to say no.

And then at night…

Coffee.

Chocolate.

A cigarette.

A glass of wine.

Not because you are weak.

Because you are tired of abandoning yourself.

You tolerate disrespect.

You replay conversations.

You feel small.

Ignored.

Used.

Emotionally left.

And you know you are capable of more.

But you stay.

Not because you lack discipline.

Because your nervous system learned

that keeping the peace is safer

than being yourself.