What happens when being useful becomes more than something you do and starts becoming how you understand your value?
In this case file, I follow that question backward.
Through childhood, marriage, motherhood, caregiving, and the strange currency of being the person who can always handle it, I start looking at the difference between being needed and being loved.
This isn't a resolution.
It's evidence.
Facts before conclusions.
Curiosity before certainty.
Evidence before assumptions.