Walking away from what drains you isn’t giving up. It’s putting down weight you were never meant to carry.

Persistence is treated as a virtue in all circumstances, which makes leaving look like a character flaw regardless of what is being left. Some things cost more than they return, permanently, and continuing does not improve them; it only transfers the loss to you. Stopping is a judgment about the arrangement, not about your capacity to endure.

If something has been draining you for months, ask what specifically would have to change for it to be worth continuing, and whether that change is plausible. If it is not, leaving is the reasonable conclusion rather than a failure of nerve.