Caring isn’t weakness — but it comes with risk. Every act of love or any kind of care opens the door to loss. And trust is usually the first to go. Once it’s broken — whether by betrayal, heartbreak, or silence — trust is hard to regain. It changes you. You start to pull away. You feel insecure… not because you want to, but because you feel you have to. But in protecting yourself, you might hurt others. Pain turns into anger. Anger flares up — and doesn’t always hit the right target. Sometimes you become the very thing that hurt you, without even realizing it.