Dr. Tabatha Barber describes a period of spiritual silence and emotional exhaustion that her partner misread as unwillingness to help. She reveals her default pattern: prioritize everyone else's needs first, believing her own will follow. The result was burnout, faith crisis, and relational conflict.
During that time, I do remember saying, I think God's not speaking to me anymore. I think that He wants you to ask Him. And just the anger that came out of that because he felt like I didn't want to help him, or I didn't want to be a good helper. Yeah. And being the wife that I am and wanting to be a supporter, like ride or die, like I'll do whatever I need to do, it hit me in a different way at that time because the way I feel safe is Supporting others, the way I feel safe and know the outcome is to like make sure everyone else's needs are met so that after everyone else's are met, then mine can get met.
