🧨 How to Deal with People Who Take, Take, Take?

Easy. Keep Giving Them Absolute Sh*t.

Eventually, they’ll stop asking.

You know the type — always needing a “favour,” always “struggling,” always expecting you to come to the rescue like you’re some underpaid emotional Amazon Prime. And because you’re nice (or trauma-trained), you keep helping.

But here’s a little strategy for when “no” feels too exhausting:

✅ Just Keep Giving… Crap.

• They want money? Give them a 10p coin and say “don’t spend it all at once.”
• They want advice? Offer something unhinged like “Manifest it with a vision board made of ham.”
• They want your time? Be late. Forget. Text back three days later with “Oops, missed this. What was it again?”
• They want emotional support? Hit them with vague spiritual nonsense:
  “The universe is teaching you a lesson right now.”

💩 Serve It Cold, Serve It Often

They expect steak? Give them instant noodles.

They expect a five-star service? Give them a paper napkin and tell them it’s luxury recycled.

Eventually, they’ll clock the pattern:

“Every time I ask her for something, it’s weird, delayed, or borderline useless.”

Perfect.

🧃 Optional Power Move: Be So Inconvenient, They Ghost You

• Help them with “just one quick thing”… and take 3 hours.
• Offer to help, then need them to help you halfway through.
• Talk about your childhood trauma when they ask for a lift.

Takers hate effort. Make it inconvenient to leech off you, and they’ll slither off to find someone else.

👑 Bonus: Keep Your Energy, Keep Your Crown

The point isn’t to be mean. The point is:

You don’t have to keep pouring your best self into a human black hole.

So if you can’t say no just yet?

Start saying yes — but in the most useless, awkward, low-effort way possible.

Eventually, the takers will realise…

You’re no longer their personal butler, bank, therapist, or ego sponge.

You’re busy. You’re healing. You’re done.