Nobody tells you what this role actually costs before you are already inside it. Not the workload. The other things. The Sunday mornings. The friendships. The quiet disappearance of the person you were before someone needed you this much.

Nobody asks the Loop Keeper how they are holding up. They ask about the situation, the appointment, the update. The Loop Keeper keeps saying fine.

Loop Keeper burnout does not arrive all at once. It builds through a series of small compressions, each one manageable on its own, until the accumulation becomes something harder to recover from.