my childhood trauma didn't make me stronger it made me a people pleaser, it made it impossible for me to give up on people, it made me exhaustingly empathetic, and it made me constantly have the urge to take responsibility for everybody's problems even if I didn't cause them.
You can't fight for a place in someone's life because no matter how hard you try to keep your place, they'll put you where they want to even if it's not where you should be.