spent an hour scrolling back through old chats. realized i used to get 3-4 invites a week, now maybe one a month. didn’t do anything wrong - just started saying no when pain hit baseline 5-6. work already pushed me to a 7 most days, couldn’t add social stuff without hitting an 8.
easier to say “not feeling great” than explain the whole thing. they got it at first. then they stopped asking. now when someone reaches out i’m almost surprised.
it’s not this dramatic moment where i isolated myself. it just happened slow. by the time i realized what’d changed, the invites had mostly dried up. anyone else have that moment where you’re like, when did i become the person who’s never free?