AVOID ABUSE
When someone makes excessive, inappropriate and unfair use of something or someone, it can be considered abuse.
There are several types of abuse such as emotional, physical, among others. But there is a particularly silent one and it is the one that comes from your circle of friends or family.
Because they are close to you, you get carried away without realizing it, and you succumb easily.
The best thing to do in these cases is to learn to differentiate between the normal or natural situations that occur in this type of relationship and abusive behavior. People you surround yourself with may be abusing you and you may be allowing them to absorb more from you than they should.
If God blessed you with a talent, it is good that you share it with others, that you give out of grace what you received from grace, but that does not mean that your life is an open book for others. Our life before God should not have any kind of reservation and we should be ready for everything that God sends us.
But with people it is not the same, you must learn to identify who these people are and what kind of actions they do that harm your life.
For example, if you sell soft drinks and your friends or family cannot come to your store to drink free soft drinks repeatedly, instead of helping your business prosper, they would be sinking until they bankrupt you.
This is the kind of abuse I am talking about, you can't allow people to abuse you because you are a noble or shy person. I would call it the friendly silent warning, because it always comes from supposed friends. So we must not let our guard down, it is good to be giving and help others but learn to discern and throw out of your life the professional abusers.
Remember that you are valuable and that you should take care of all that God has put in you, have it at God's disposal for when He demands it to bless others, not for unscrupulous people who are always looking to take advantage of the talents of others.
Stay away from toxic people who want to complicate your life, God will show you good soil where you should sow that seed for which He prepared you.
Trust your intuition, and pray to the Holy Spirit of God to direct every decision you make, to place around you the right people and keep away the wrong ones who only think of themselves.
That kind of abuse is very common sometimes you even know but due to the relationship between you too you will just decided to keep quiet. I used to tell people that your business will only grow when freinds and family paid for the service you render.