They Don’t Love You — Just Your Energy
- 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
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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
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