EXPECTING EVERYONE TO LEAVE

When your home and family kept reshuffling—new step-parents, new siblings, new rules, new everything—you learned that love comes with an expiration date ⏰. You became incredibly adaptable and resilient, mastering the art of fitting into new family dynamics and building connections quickly 🤝. Your flexibility and ability to navigate changing relationships is genuinely impressive and serves you well in many areas of life.✨

But somewhere deep down, you absorbed the message that nothing is permanent, that even the people who promise to stay might eventually move on 🔀. Now you find yourself holding back in relationships, not fully investing because part of you is always preparing for the inevitable abandonment and goodbye 👋. You love with one foot out the door, you protect yourself from the pain of another relationship that might eventually dissolve.