It’s not their fault. You agreed to something you didn’t want to do. You said yes to avoid tension, to be helpful, or because you felt put on the spot. Then later, you feel frustrated or taken advantage of. You keep replaying the moment, wishing they had asked differently, noticed your hesitation or somehow known you weren’t okay with it. But here’s the thing: they asked. And you said yes.

This doesn’t make you a bad person. We all want to be liked, needed, easy to work with, but if you constantly say yes when you mean no, the problem isn’t that people keep asking. The problem is that they have no idea you’re building resentment in the background. And the longer that goes unspoken, the harder it becomes to have honest boundaries without blaming someone else for crossing them.