If you’re everybody’s emergency contact, check who’s on yours.

Being the person everyone calls is a good thing to be and a dangerous thing to be only. One-directional support looks generous from outside and leaves you nowhere to put your own bad night, because everybody has learned to see you as the steady one. People who hold everything up get asked the least.

Name one person you could call at eleven at night without apologizing first. If you cannot, that is worth fixing before you need it. Tell someone something small and unfinished this week, and let being helped be a thing you also do.