ah lightness – you’re a beautiful girl to offer yourself to others even when you were suffering yourself. Like anita says – they will feed off the attention that other people give them and you did well to be there for them and you did well to realise it was all about them and not fulfilling any needs in yourself.
I fell into that trap once – people needed my help so much and much and moch and I started being so tired and haggard from one perso’s problems tot he next and thought’it’s not about me – they need me’ and in a shared house in the end I had a thing on my door of ‘take a ticket’ it was so endless.
until one day DONG… this one IS about me and I don’t have the strength to help today and I said so too to the next person. I’m so sorry I can’t help you today – I have my own things to sort out today., and it felt amazing!!! WOO! I could pick and choose whose problems to listen to (because they were always there) and I dint feel like I was letting anyone down – I realised if they made me feel that I was letting them down then I found them to be selfish and they deserved to learn that I am not their tool.
sure enough they just went on to the next person who would listen and I was off the hook.
the answer is in you…. xx