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They Don’t Love You — Just Your Energy

  • Writer: Marcus Nikos
    Marcus Nikos
  • May 27
  • 17 min read

They say you are too intense too

emotional you care too much But they

never say it when they need you only

when you need them They love your calm

when they are falling apart They love

your silence when they are drowning in

noise They love your support until it's

no longer convenient Then suddenly you

are too much And so you begin to shrink

to question yourself Maybe I am too

emotional Maybe I do expect too much

Maybe I'm the problem But deep down you

know something does not add up You are

not clingy You're committed You are not

needy You're present You don't want

attention You crave connection So why

does your love always end in exhaustion

Because in a world obsessed with surface

depth feels dangerous People crave your

light but reject the shadow that makes

it real And the most painful question

starts to haunt you Am I just hard to

love But what if you are not broken What

if just like Carl Jung discovered your

energy isn't the problem It's the mirror

You reflect what others try to avoid

Their fear their shame their emptiness

and instead of facing it they take from

you until you have nothing left In this

video we will explore the hidden truth

behind emotional parasites Why your

energy attracts users and how Yung's

work can help you protect your light

without dimming it If you have ever felt

invisible in a room you lit up Hit

subscribe to Cypos because this channel

it sees through the masks And this video

might just explain why you feel so

misunderstood Carl Jung did not just

study the mind He studied the invisible

the things you feel but cannot explain

The way someone walks into the room and

shifts the atmosphere The way silence

speaks louder than words and the way

energy not logic often guides our

relationships Jung called it psychic

energy Not the mystical kind but the

psychological force behind everything we

do Your attention your emotions your

instincts It's the unseen fuel that

powers your thoughts decisions and

connections Every word you speak every

feeling you give every time you listen

without interrupting you are spending it

And here's the danger Most people don't

even realize what they are giving away

But others do They see your energy not

your soul They feel your calm and

consume it They notice your kindness and

exploit it Young believe that this

energy is not infinite It's sacred

finite precious And when you pour it

into people who only take you begin to

hollow out Not all at once but slowly

quietly until you forget what it feels

like to be full That's how it begins

They praise you for being so

understanding They lean on you when life

gets heavy And when they are strong

again they vanish No explanation no

apology just absence As if your value

disappeared the moment they were done

needing you But this is not love It's

not friendship It's not a connection

It's consumption This video dives deep

into Carl Jung's understanding of

psychic energy Why are certain people

addicted to your presence how emotional

vampires disguise themselves as lovers

or friends and most importantly how to

reclaim your energy before it breaks you

Because people might not love you only

the way you heal them And if you don't

learn how to protect your energy you

will spend your whole life fixing others

while quietly falling apart yourself

Some people never ask how you are doing

until they need something They call only

when their world is falling apart They

vent cry unload and drain And then they

vanish No thank you No How about you

Just silence until the next crisis Carl

Jung did not call them energy vampires

but he understood them better than

anyone He called it psychic projection

The act of casting your internal chaos

onto someone else unconsciously

expecting them to carry what you refuse

to face You see in Yungian psychology

every person has a shadow a dark side

filled with denied emotions fears and

unmet needs And instead of confronting

their shadow many people outsource it

They project it onto others And who do

they latch on to The empathetic the

attuned the people who listen deeply who

feel everything You They come to you

because you are a safe place but they

don't treat you like a person They treat

you like a sponge And over time the

signs are subtle but real You feel tired

after talking to them You feel

responsible for their pain You feel

guilty for setting boundaries This is

not a friendship It's emotional leeching

But it does not start that way At first

they admire you They call you wise They

say you are so good at listening They

open up fast trauma dumping in the first

few conversations and they make you feel

important needed But slowly the dynamic

shifts They stop showing interest in you

They dismiss your emotions They make you

feel selfish for wanting space And worst

of all they guilt trip you when you pull

away According to Jung this is classic

shadow projection They are not in love

with you They are in love with how you

make them feel regulated seen whole But

it's not sustainable because they are

not healing They are outsourcing They

refuse to build their own inner light So

they steal yours And when you finally

stop giving they say you have changed

They accuse you of being cold They find

someone else to drain And the cycle

begins again What's happening here is

not always malicious It's unconscious

But it's still dangerous because it

leaves people like you emotionally

bankrupt confused and doubting your

worth Jung believed that true connection

requires two people who have met their

own shadow who have done the inner work

But energy vampires they avoid that

journey Instead they surround themselves

with people who reflect their light back

to them so they don't have to go inward

In the end you are not too intense

You're just resonating at a level they

have not reached yet And rather than

rise up they drain down But once you

become aware of this pattern you can end

it You can stop confusing emotional

labor with love You can stop trying to

heal people who refuse to heal

themselves You can finally say no

without guilt You can finally protect

your energy without apology because your

light is not for free And it's not your

job to set yourself on fire just to keep

someone else warm You keep attracting

the same kind of people The ones who

take more than they give The ones who

drain you ghost you then return like

nothing happened only when they need

something And maybe you've asked

yourself why do I keep ending up in

these one-sided connections You're

empathetic emotionally intelligent You

listen more than you speak You try to be

kind understanding even when it hurts

But still you attract users takers

emotional parasites Carl Jung once said

"Until you make the unconscious

conscious it will direct your life and

you will call it fate." This isn't fate

This is a pattern and it's been running

quietly beneath the surface for years

Let's go back When you were young your

value was often tied to what you did not

who you were Maybe you had a parent who

was emotionally unavailable So you

became hyper aware of others moods You

learned to read the room manage chaos

and shrink yourself to avoid conflict

You became the fixer the peacemaker the

emotional sponge You gave love hoping it

would be returned You listened hoping

someone would finally ask you how you

feel You poured out energy hoping one

day someone would pour it back in but

they never did And over time your

nervous system began to confuse

overgiving with safety To be loved you

had to earn it To feel seen you had to

become invisible This is how unconscious

patterns form And now even as an adult

even though you're wiser more self-aware

those early imprints still operate in

the background You're attracted to

people who need you You ignore people

who see you Because being needed feels

familiar even if it's exhausting But

here's the trap If you keep giving from

a place of lack you'll attract people

who feed on that emptiness Not because

you're weak but because you've never

been taught that love doesn't require

sacrifice Jung believed that what we

repress what we deny in ourselves ends

up ruling us If you were taught to

repress your own needs your voice your

anger you'll unconsciously attract

people who take advantage of that

silence You become the healer who never

gets healed the lover who never gets

loved back the giver who's always empty

and worst of all you blame yourself But

you're not broken You're just stuck in a

loop your inner child thinks is love And

it's not Love doesn't drain you It

doesn't keep score It doesn't vanish

when you finally ask for something in

return So how do you break free You

begin by making the unconscious

conscious You notice the pattern Who are

you drawn to and why What do you

tolerate that drains you When did you

first learn that love had to be earned

And then you choose differently You stop

proving your worth by how much you give

You start receiving without guilt You

set boundaries not as walls but as

sacred filters Because the truth is you

don't have to bleed to be seen You don't

have to shrink to be safe You don't have

to give everything to be loved You just

have to stop attracting from a place of

lack and start embodying the love you

never received When that happens

everything changes You have probably

felt it You are there for everyone You

check in You remember the small things

You help You hold space for their

breakdowns calm their storms lift them

when they fall And yet no one really

sees you Not your fears not your pain

not your essence They love your function

not your soul Carl Jung had a word for

this kind of performance Persona The

social mask we wear to be accepted We

all have one It's the role we step into

when we feel we have to earn belonging

The helper the achiever the reliable one

It's the version of ourselves we think

the world wants Even if it means burying

the parts we need the world to see The

problem is the longer you wear the mask

the more invisible your real self

becomes even to you You get praised for

your kindness but not noticed when you

need care You're loved for your calm

energy but no one asks about the storm

inside You're appreciated for your

strength but your quiet exhaustion goes

unnoticed Over time this erodess you You

start to feel like a tool useful but not

cherished valuable but not valued People

remember you when they need you but when

you need them silence It's a soul deep

loneliness the kind you can't explain to

anyone because on the outside you look

fine You smile you nod you say "I'm

okay." But deep down you're screaming to

be seen Not for what you do but for who

you are And here's the twist Most people

don't even realize they're doing it

They're so used to you being the strong

one They don't think to ask if you're

struggling They're so comforted by your

presence they forget you also need to be

held It's not that they don't care It's

that your persona the one Yung described

has done its job too well You've

convinced the world you're fine You've

hidden the parts that bleed You've

smiled when you were dying inside

because that's how you survived But

survival is not the same as wholeness

Jung warned that the more we identify

with the persona the more disconnected

we become from the self our true

authentic identity And that

disconnection it leaves you feeling

hollow unseen and resentful Because it's

exhausting to be loved for a mask you

had to build just to feel safe So you

start questioning everything Do they

really love me or just how I serve them

If I stopped giving would anyone stay

What happens if I drop the mask These

are terrifying questions but they're

also freeing because the moment you ask

them you open a door Jung believed every

person must walk through the journey

from persona to

authenticity You start showing up

differently less polished more real You

start saying no not out of cruelty but

out of clarity You stop performing for

love and start receiving it without

having to earn it And suddenly the

dynamic shifts Some people pull away

because they were only attached to your

function Others get uncomfortable

because your honesty threatens their

illusions But a few a sacred few will

see you not for your light not for your

calm not for your usefulness but for

your being These people they are rare

but they're real and they'll never make

you feel invisible So if you feel unseen

like your soul is hiding beneath layers

of being enough it's not because you're

broken It's because your light was

trained to shine only in ways that made

others comfortable But it's time to take

off the mask to risk being real to

remember that the people who truly love

you won't need you to perform They'll

see you They'll choose you exactly as

you are At first it feels subtle You say

no just once You don't answer the call

You don't drop everything to help You

finally protect your time your energy

your peace and then silence The people

who once messaged you daily gone The

ones who used to need you so desperately

they vanish like smoke No fight no

closure just absence It's confusing You

wonder what you did wrong You replay the

moment you said "I can't right now."

Trying to find the offense But there

wasn't one You didn't change You just

stop sacrificing yourself And that's

when their mask falls off Because some

people weren't there for you They were

there for your service your availability

your emotional labor your light Carl

Jung understood this deeply He believed

that the process of individuation the

journey of becoming your true whole self

involves pulling back your energy from

where it was unconsciously leaking out

It means no longer playing roles no

longer pouring into others just to be

accepted no longer letting your kindness

be exploited as a currency for

conditional love And when you do this

when you reclaim your soul from everyone

who's been feeding on it the illusion

shatters because now the transaction is

no longer worth it for them They can't

manipulate you with guilt They can't

access your energy on demand They can't

lean on your empathy while offering you

nothing in return And that's when you

see the truth Their presence was

dependent on your self-abandonment They

didn't stay because of love They stayed

because of what you gave endlessly

quietly and without resistance But the

moment you grow the moment you begin to

individuate as Jung called it they

withdraw Not because you're toxic not

because you changed but because your

boundaries expose their intentions This

realization is painful It breaks your

heart in a quiet mature kind of way You

see the truth not with anger but with

clarity That love never demands your

exhaustion That real connection doesn't

dissolve when you honor yourself And yes

it's lonely at first You miss them You

miss the illusion You miss the version

of you that always knew how to keep

everyone happy But you also feel

something new Peace A strange unfamiliar

peace that comes from knowing you're no

longer performing No longer bleeding

just to feel worthy No longer bending to

fit into spaces that only valued your

function This is individuation Young

said that individuation is not about

becoming perfect It's about becoming

whole Reclaiming the parts of yourself

you gave away to survive It's the path

back to your essence And yes that path

often demands solitude Because when you

stop giving you stop attracting users

And in that stillness in that silence

you finally begin to hear yourself You

reconnect with the voice beneath all the

noise The voice that says "You are not

here to be drained You are not here to

be used You are not here to be the

emotional scaffoldings for people

unwilling to build themselves You are

here to live fully freely honestly And

those who disappear when you stop giving

let them go Because the ones who stay

the ones who meet you at your

depth those are the people who don't

just love your light they love your

boundaries too It starts with a simple

yes You say yes when you are tired Yes

when you are overwhelmed Yes when every

fiber in your body is screaming for rest

Because saying no feels like a betrayal

Not of them but of the version of

yourself you think you have to be The

reliable one the strong one the one

who's always there But over time this

constant availability this open door

policy for anyone who needs you becomes

a slow erosion of your identity you

begin to disappear beneath your own

kindness Carl Jung warned us about this

trap He believed that when we constantly

suppress our real needs our real

boundaries and our real desires we

create a fracture in the soul This

fracture is called repression And it

doesn't stay quiet forever You repress

your exhaustion to be helpful You

repress your anger to stay likable You

repress your truth to avoid

disappointing others And slowly without

realizing it you become emotionally

bankrupt Because every yes that betrays

your truth is a withdrawal from your

emotional bank account Every fake smile

every forced conversation every act of

caretaking done from guilt instead of

love It all adds up until one day you

wake up and feel nothing No joy no spark

just numbness This is the cost of being

too available You don't just lose your

energy you lose yourself You lose the

ability to recognize your own voice

amidst the noise of everyone else's

needs You forget what you want because

you've spent your entire life

prioritizing what others expect from you

You feel invisible not because others

don't see you but because you no longer

see yourself Jung saw this as one of the

most dangerous forms of self-abandonment

becoming everything for everyone and

nothing for yourself He believed that

when we repress who we are in order to

belong we create a false self A mask we

wear to survive This mask says "I'm fine

I don't mind I'm just happy to help."

But behind it there's grief There's rage

There's a quiet longing to be loved

without conditions Because the truth is

constantly being there for others

doesn't make you lovable It makes you

useful And there's a difference People

grow to expect your sacrifice They stop

thanking you They start depending on you

like a utility not a human being And the

more you give without boundaries the

more they forget you have boundaries So

you stretch you break you pour from an

empty cup until you're running on fumes

emotionally mentally spiritually and no

one notices because you train them not

to But here's the truth Yung would want

you to hear You are not here to be

available for everyone You are not here

to be the fixer the healer the emotional

sponge for other people's chaos You are

here to live fully And that means

honoring your limits It means

disappointing people It means being

misunderstood It means saying no even

when your voice shakes Because every no

that honors your soul is a yes to your

healing Repression may feel like safety

but it's actually self eraser And the

only way to reclaim yourself is to stop

equating your worth with your

availability You are not valuable

because you're always accessible You are

valuable because you exist And when you

finally pull back when you let yourself

be unavailable you'll discover something

miraculous The real you is not selfish

The real you is not cold The real you is

free is there comes a moment after the

exhaustion the heartbreak the hollowing

out when something inside you snaps Not

in a violent way but in a quiet

revolutionary way A moment where you say

"No more No more being the emotional

landfill for other people's problems No

more dimming your light to keep others

comfortable No more mistaking kindness

for self eraser." Carl Jung believed

that this moment this silent rebellion

is the beginning of true individuation

the beginning of becoming whole But

wholeness isn't about becoming nice

again It's about becoming real And that

starts with rebuilding your psychic

boundaries The invisible walls that

protect your energy your peace yourself

Jung offered us three powerful tools for

this transformation For most of your

life you've repressed your anger your

assertiveness your ability to say no

without guilt Why Because somewhere

along the way you were taught those

parts of you were bad You had to be

agreeable selfless always available or

risk being rejected But Jung believed

that everything we repress doesn't

disappear It becomes part of the shadow

The unconscious parts of us that hold

our strength our voice our raw truth

Shadow work is the process of turning

inward and reclaiming what you've

disowned It's admitting I am allowed to

take up space My needs matter Anger is

not evil It's information As you

integrate your shadow you stop being an

emotional sponge You become a mirror And

people can no longer manipulate a mirror

because it reflects truth not compliance

Healing does not mean becoming someone

new It means remembering who you were

before the world taught you to perform

Jung's concept of integration is about

merging your conscious self with your

unconscious creating alignment between

your soul and your choices You stop

playing roles You stop shapeshifting for

approval You live from your center not

your wounds You don't just set

boundaries You become one Your presence

starts to communicate I don't abandon

myself anymore And people feel it Some

will leave Let them Because those who

thrive on your dysfunction cannot

survive your healing Most people fear

being alone But solitude is not

loneliness It's self- communion In

solitude you hear your own voice again

You rediscover your desires You realize

that your worth was never tied to how

needed you were but how whole you are

when no one is watching Jung called

solitude a school of the soul It's where

clarity is born where your energy

returns where your spirit sharpens its

edges not for battle but for truth You

don't need to prove your worth through

overgiving You just need to protect it

Pain becomes power when you own the

lesson All the emotional betrayal all

the ghosting all the draining

relationships they weren't your fault

but they were your curriculum Each time

someone took from you without giving

back you learned something vital about

your own capacity and your own neglect

Now you choose differently You don't

lash out you level up You don't explain

you embody You don't chase you create

gravity Because you're no longer the

doormat You are the doorway to a higher

standard And only those willing to meet

you in truth are allowed in Here's the

irony no one talks about The moment you

stop begging for love is the moment love

finds you Not the kind that drains

confuses or leaves you empty but the

kind that recognizes you Not for what

you give but for who you are Carl Jung

believed that the more whole a person

becomes the less they chase external

validation Wholeness doesn't mean

perfection It means integration You no

longer search for someone to complete

you because you've already reclaimed the

parts of yourself you gave away And that

changes your energy Before you radiated

availability You wore your empathy like

an open door Anyone could walk in take

what they needed and leave crumbs behind

But now now your energy says "I know my

value I know how to give and when to

stop I don't fear solitude because I'm

no longer afraid of myself." And this

shift does something extraordinary It

repels the users They sense the boundary

the self-possession the clarity and it

unnerves them They can't manipulate what

they can't control But it also does

something else It attracts respect

People who once overlooked you now feel

your presence before you even speak Not

because you're louder but because you're

rooted You become magnetic not by effort

but by authenticity Because real love

true reciprocal soulnourishing love only

arrives when false attachments die When

you stop performing stop overgiving stop

shrinking and finally stand in your full

integrated self That's when someone sees

you and doesn't flinch Not because they

need you to heal them but because

they're healing too Love isn't found in

giving your energy away It's found in

protecting it and watching who still

comes close You were never too intense

too emotional too deep You were never

too much They were just too empty to

hold you too distracted to notice you

too broken to love you without draining

you Your energy wasn't a flaw It was a

gift a warmth people clung to because

they hadn't built their own But that

doesn't mean you deserve to be used to

be seen as a well and not a whole person

Carl Jung taught us that true power

comes from within Not from how much you

give others but from how fully you

reclaim yourself So if you felt

invisible discarded or misunderstood

this is your sign to stop giving your

soul away piece by piece Withdraw your

light from those who only stand in your

sun and save it for those who can meet

you in the dark Because the right people

they won't just need your energy they'll

honor it If this resonated with you take

a breath and take your power back And if

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