I finally said no to a promotion and chose my life instead
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Reading this felt like looking in a mirror. You put words to something I have carried silently for a long time. Thank you for being brave enough to post it.
I do not have advice, just solidarity. Sometimes being witnessed is the whole medicine. I see you and I am glad you are still here.
Honestly thank you for writing this out loud. So many of us feel it and never say it. You just made a bunch of strangers feel less alone tonight.
I needed to read this more than you know. Bookmarking it for my own hard nights. Thank you for trusting this space with something so real.
This community is lucky to have someone willing to be this honest. You make it safer for the rest of us to be real too.
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