Repeat after me:

“Your jealousy is not my problem.”
“Your insecurities are not my problem.”
“Your dysfunctions are not my problem.”
“Your inability to accept me as I am is not my problem.”

These are bold statements, I realize. But some of us, somewhere along the way, have learned to shrink ourselves to make others more comfortable. We learned to change who we are to fit someone else’s expectations.

And in doing so, we lost something essential: ourselves.