when your kindness got misread 🌧️🤲

It hurts when your kindness gets misunderstood. You were trying to be patient, gentle, open, maybe even forgiving 🤲 And somehow someone turned that into permission. Permission to take more. Push more. Expect more. Then when you finally got tired, they acted shocked, like your softness came with no edges.

Please remember this: kindness is not consent to be drained 🌧️ Being understanding doesn't mean you have to understand someone all the way into hurting yourself. You can be warm and still say, 'No.' You can care and still step back. You can wish someone well from a distance where they can't keep using your heart as a free charging station 🔋😭 Don't let one person's misuse of your softness make you ashamed of it. Your tenderness is beautiful. It just needs better protection now. Tonight, forgive yourself for giving chances. You were loving. Next time, love with a lock on the door too 🤍