Original Advice
“DONT: Stop over-functioning to earn basic respect.”
Respect Is Not Overtime
You’re clocking in early and staying late in a relationship that pays in crumbs. The narcissist applauds your hustle because it feeds their throne, not your soul. Stop doing three jobs to deserve a hello. Respect is baseline, not a bonus. When you over-function, you teach them your limits are negotiable. Close the store. Turn off the lights.
Over-functioning is bait. Perform more and they raise the bar, then resent you for clearing it. You cannot fill a bottomless cup by pouring faster. Withdraw the extra and the truth appears: either they step up, or the silence does. Boundaries are not cruelty; they are quality control. Let consequences do the talking. Your energy belongs to futures, not fires.
Cosmic Context
You are Fixed Air: detachment is a blade, not a bruise. Uranus built you to rewire systems, not power broken ones.
Action
──────Say “I can’t” to the next request. Then stay silent.
✨ You are allowed to do less and still be respected. ✨