Preview — The Goal
🧛 The Goal: You know the feeling: a 20-minute conversation with a certain someone and you need a nap. The friend whose life is a permanent emergency (that they never fix). The coworker whose every sentence is a complaint. The relative who calls to monologue their misery and hangs up refreshed while you're drained flat. These are energy vampires — usually not evil, often genuinely struggling — but the relationship runs one direction: they vent, you absorb. And absorbing has real costs: emotional exhaustion is contagious (psychologists literally call it 'secondhand stress'). The fix isn't cutting off every struggling person — it's changing the plumbing so care flows without you being the drain.