The Law of Diminishing Returns...

The Law of Diminishing Returns in Economics:

“When you keep adding more of the same input, the output eventually starts reducing.”

But somewhere along the way, we forgot that this applies to human relationships too.

Not because people stop caring.

Not because love reduces.

But because over-investment without awareness quietly reduces the joy a relationship brings.

Let me explain.

The first few calls feel exciting.

The tenth feels comforting.

The fiftieth becomes routine.

The hundredth goes unnoticed.

Not because the other person is wrong but because we didn’t balance effort with respect, boundaries, silence, and space.

We keep giving, giving, giving…

hoping more effort will automatically create more closeness.

But after a point more calling doesn’t create more connection, more sacrificing doesn’t create more trust, more adjusting doesn’t create more harmony and more availability doesn’t create more appreciation

In fact, the opposite happens.

The returns start to diminish.

Not because effort is bad.

But because unbalanced effort feels invisible over time.

Relationships flourish on quality, not quantity.

A well-timed message is more powerful than 20 missed calls.

A 30-minute honest conversation is richer than 3 hours of forced talking.

A pause often heals more than persistence.

A boundary protects more than a sacrifice.

People don’t need more of us.

People need a healthy, present, self-respecting version of us.

Pause. Recalibrate. 

Restore your balance. 

The returns will grow again when your energy does.