Approval is addictive.
And like every addiction, it costs you more than it gives you.
You start performing instead of living.
You start managing instead of connecting.
Learn to sit with being disliked.
Your freedom is on the other side of it.
Stop trying to prove your worth to someone who has already decided not to see it.
That is not loyalty.
That is punishment.
An ungrateful person will take everything you give and still write the story where you failed them.
Let them write it without you.