Definition: The compulsive act of scrubbing away your personal limits to make others comfortable, like using emotional bleach to dissolve your “no” into a stain-free “sure thing.” Chronic users vanish their own needs, overtime schedules, and opinions to avoid conflict, mistaking self-erasure for being agreeable.
Leaves you emotionally raw, resentful, and wondering why people treat you like a human welcome mat. What feels polite now causes soul-ular acid burns later, as you’ve literally bleached your identity out of existence to appease vampires who hate daylight.
Example:
Despite exhaustion, Maya compulsively scrubbed away her personal limits, dissolving her “no” into agreeing to host the party, erasing her own need for rest.
Mark’s chronic self-erasure meant he stayed late appeasing work vampires again, vanishing his schedule and leaving him raw and resentful the next morning.