People will take from you what they can. If they sense that you are the type of person who accepts and submits, they will push and push until they have established an exploitative relationship with you.
Heal so you stop seeing attention as affection, attachment as connection, codependency as support, disagreements as attacks, rejection as you are not good enough, their lack of effort as a sign for you to try harder, and their bare minimum as a sign for you to give more.
The reason people don’t start businesses isn’t because they don’t know what to do, it’s because they don’t know what’ll happen.
Operating in uncertainty is the job.
By the time you have perfect information, it’s too late.
Never let something bother you for longer than it takes to fix, someone bother you for longer than it takes to tell them, or some place bother for you for longer than it takes to leave.