“All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.” ~Brianna Wiest I’ll admit it. I stayed in a failed marriage for five years past its expiration date.
I got especially good at faking smiles in public and relegating myself to my laptop most evenings. I also sentenced myself to a career that stopped “lighting me up” about a decade before I was ready to wave the white flag of surrender.
As in my marriage, I refused to believe its end for ages and tried everything I could think of to keep this dying flame alive.
I switched positions and teams, constantly created new goalposts for myself, changed organizations, and even moved to Asia well before I was willing to let my career go.