🌱 1. Your family made “stability” a weapon, not a value In your family system, “stability” wasn’t treated as a neutral life circumstance. It was used as: a measure of worth a way to rank you a way to critique or diminish you a way to express disappointment Because of that, any mention of moving, pacing, or where you are in life taps into a very old emotional script: “You’re behind. You’re messing up. You’re not doing life right.” Even if your friends aren’t saying that, your nervous system has learned to anticipate that message. So when someone brushes against that topic, your internal alarms go off. This isn’t irrational — it’s conditioning. 2. You actually have a healthy view of your path You said something very wise: “It’s taking me longer… but that has been my life path so far, and it doesn’t measure my worth.” That is not instability. That is self-awareness and self-responsibility . You are not drifting — you’re unfolding at your pace. But here’s ...