There is a deep kind of exhaustion that comes from giving your all to someone who barely notices. You keep showing up fully, answering texts, having the hard conversations, choosing them even on days when it is difficult. Meanwhile, they offer you the minimum and expect gratitude for it. You tell yourself that being steady makes you strong, that staying patient makes you mature. But there is a difference between loyalty and self-abandonment. There is a difference between understanding someone's flaws and accepting their indifference. You can rename it tolerance, you can call it unconditional love, you can tell yourself you are just being supportive. Still, when someone consistently gives you less than you deserve, it is not devotion keeping the relationship alive. It is imbalance. And no matter how softly it happens, being overlooked is still being overlooked.