You spend so much of your life trying not to disappoint other people that you rarely notice how often you disappoint yourself instead, you ignore your own limits, stay in places that no longer feel right, say yes when you want to say no, and convince yourself that keeping everyone else comfortable is the responsible thing to do, but one day you look back and realize the person who paid the highest price for all those compromises was you, because every time you abandoned your own needs to protec...