There is a kind of heartbreak that doesn’t come from betrayal or abandonment—

it comes from caring too deeply, too often, for too long, with too little support in return.

Women are praised for their empathy.
But almost no one talks about the cost.

Not the burnout.
Not the emotional exhaustion.
Not the quiet collapse that happens inside when a woman’s heart has been stretched beyond its lifetime capacity.

We are taught to care without limits.
We are taught to feel everyone else’s feelings before our own.
We are taught that devotion is synonymous with love.

And slowly—almost invisibly—this turns into something dangerous:

Emotional contagion.

Women absorb the anxieties of their partners, the pain of their children, the stress of their families, the struggles of their friends, the heartbreaks of the people they try to save.

But here’s the truth that rarely gets spoken:

You are not a container for the world’s emotions.
You were never meant to carry this much.

And life is far too short to spend it drowning in what doesn’t belong to you.