Leo, This Is the Person You Need to Worry About
Why Your Generosity Is Being Read as Weakness
Leo gives loudly. You pay for dinners without looking at the check. You make introductions that change careers. You offer your home, your connections, and your energy to people you care about, expecting nothing in return because the act of giving feels natural to you. You assume everyone operates with the same baseline of pride. You figure that if someone takes too much, their own dignity will eventually force them to step back and reciprocate.
That assumption is exactly what this person relies on. They have learned that your generosity does not come with a ledger. Because you hate appearing petty or transactional, you swallow small disappointments instead of addressing them. When they cancel plans last minute to attend something more advantageous, you brush it off. When they borrow your ideas and present them in meetings without credit, you tell yourself it does not matter because you have plenty more. But keeping score is not always about pettiness. Sometimes it is the only way to recognize who is treating you like a resource rather than a person.
Your warmth makes it easy for people to forget you have boundaries. This specific individual has confused your open door with a lack of walls. They push slightly further each month, testing how much they can extract before you react. And because reacting feels like admitting you were used, you keep extending grace long past the point where it serves you.
