My name is Hope...

and I feel like a doormat!!! I am (or so I think) one of the nicest people that you can possibly meet and lately I have been feeling that some of my friends are taking advantage of that fact! I love to help people. It is in my nature but I am really starting to feel like some people are friends with me just for the benefit of having someone that they can always count on to go out of their way to help them when they need it. I don't mind doing stuff for people but when it is obvious that I am being used, then it starts to upset me. I normally don't ask for much in return but lately I have been used as a taxi, and a daycare with promises to do the same in return. When those services have no longer been needed, the promises of hubby and I having a free date night or I'll take you anywhere you need to go have been forgotten. 

I guess it is mostly my fault as well. I let it happen over and over yet I feel like helping a friend out when they need it is part of a friendship! It is just so frustrating!