Dependable Doesn’t Mean Always Available

If you’re the person everyone can count on, it can be easy to confuse being dependable with always being available. In this episode of Making Space for Me , Otanthia Williams-Brady shares what it looked like when constant access to her time and attention started becoming too much, from late-night texts and nonurgent questions to errands and responsibilities filling nearly every open space.

She talks about learning that a delayed response is not the same thing as not caring, and that setting boundaries around your availability does not make you less dependable. This episode is for women, caregivers, and anyone who is used to being the reliable one but is starting to realize that being there for everyone else should not require being available all the time.