The Silence Tax
The Silence Tax documents what you pay to stay quiet.
The cost of watching incompetence get promoted while you do the work.
The price of pretending your partner is an equal when he can't find the ketchup.
The exhaustion of being the only one who sees the disaster coming and the only one who prevents it.
Time. Energy. Sanity. Collected in currencies you never recover.
No advice. No repair. No community. Just recognition of what this costs.
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The Silence Tax
When I Started Keeping Score
Friday’s meeting slipped through your fingers until you opened Excel at midnight. Row by row, you rebuilt who said what, when. The shortfall you flagged. The nod he gave. The action items he walked out with that had started in your head.
This wasn’t therapy. It was documentation. Because memory can be doubted, but formulas can’t. The Silence Tax isn’t always the extra work you do: sometimes it’s the record you’re forced to keep so no one can erase what happened.
This is exhausting. You're not imagining it.
Content Notice
Documentation, not confession.
Patterns preserved, details altered.
If it sounds familiar, it is. That's the point.
Language left intact. Adult themes unavoidable.
This record exists for documentation only.
It is not therapy, not advice, not a solution.
No repair. No community. Recognition is the record.
About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.