Borrowed Life: On Living for Others, Losing Yourself, and the Long Way Back to Who You Are

You did not plan to disappear. It happened gradually, through ten thousand small concessions, each one reasonable in isolation, each one a little more of you traded away for the comfort of being needed, liked, or simply safe. Somewhere between making everyone else's needs the priority and making your own needs an afterthought, the life you were living stopped being yours. Not dramatically. Not all...