Daily Inspiration Quote by Joyce Brothers

Being “taken for granted” is usually filed under quiet injuries: the thankless partner, the overlooked coworker, the friend who always shows up. Joyce Brothers pulls a sly therapeutic reversal. She doesn’t deny the sting; she reroutes it. In her framing, the insult contains evidence of success: you’ve become infrastructure. Not a novelty, not a performance, but a dependable part of someone’s daily emotional architecture.

The intent is classic Brothers-era pop psychology: take a common grievance and offer a reappraisal sturdy enough to lower the temperature. “Comfortable, trusted element” is doing the heavy lifting. Comfortable suggests you’ve moved past evaluation and into habit, the zone where people stop narrating their appreciation because the relationship feels as safe as a light switch. Trusted implies something earned over time, not granted by charm or charisma but by repetition and reliability. The subtext: if you want proof you matter, look for the ways you’ve become assumed.

Context matters, though. Brothers built a public persona around making psychology usable in everyday life, often by translating private pain into a manageable story. This quote is a coping tool, but also a gentle warning: if you only interpret being taken for granted as disrespect, you may punish intimacy itself. At the same time, her optimism has an edge: comfort can slide into entitlement. The line works because it names that tension without preaching - it offers dignity to the overlooked while quietly inviting a follow-up question: “Is this trust, or is it neglect?”