Home should feel like recovery from the world, not another performance inside it.

You spend most of the day being a slightly adjusted version of yourself. If home requires the same adjustment, there is nowhere left to set it down, and the tiredness starts to look like something wrong with you rather than a lack of anywhere to rest.

Ask whether your home is arranged for how you actually live or for how it looks to someone visiting. Reclaim one part of it for pure comfort. A place where you are not being observed is a real need, not an indulgence.