No relationship is perfectly balanced every day. There are periods when one person needs more and others when the roles change.

Difficulty appears when adaptation becomes one-directional: you understand, wait, repair, forgive and organise while your own needs repeatedly move to the back.

Before deciding what this means for the relationship, try describing specifically where the imbalance is showing up. Clarity is more useful than the broad conclusion “I get nothing back”.

Then comes an important question: have you expressed what you need clearly, and is there willingness on the other side to hear it?