‘If you treat yourself as a doormat, then everyone else will do the same to you.’ This is what I said to a friend. Now you may be thinking, ‘Gosh, you are cruel!’ But my friend has a tendency to please everyone (even people who have treated her badly) and, in her quest to be good, will quickly be the first to offer help to these types of people.
No one else will respect your boundaries if you do not respect them. I see this a lot in the people around me (they are quite a caring bunch)
Remember, you can’t pour from an empty cup; recharge yourself before you help others. Then you can be there fully, rather than drained and shattered at the end of the day