Load-Bearing: Competence, Care, and the Cost of Holding Everything Together

You were the one who never dropped the ball.The one who steadied the room before anyone asked. The one whose reliability became so continuous, so absorbed into the systems and relationships around you, that it stopped registering as effort, stopped counting as anything at all.Load-Bearing: Competence, Care, and the Cost of Holding Everything Together names what happens when survival becomes identi...