Thirty years of being everyone's emergency contact taught me something the research on caregiving is only beginning to name: the role itself quietly dismantles the very reciprocity you'd need to survive your own disaster. The post I spent 30 years being the friend everyone called during their crises, and when mine finally came last spring, I couldn’t think of a single person to call back appeared first on Space Daily .
I spent 30 years being the friend everyone called during their crises, and when mine finally came last spring, I couldn’t think of a single person to call back
