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In law it's called adverse possession. It describes the way that rights accrue through regular or customary use of something. If you drive on your neighbor's road every day as a shortcut to your house, and he doesn't complain, after a certain amount of time you are legally entitled to do that. In the same way, we let others adversely possess our time and energy. No one else volunteers to make the coffee for the office, so we do it every day for a week. The second week comes around and everyone looks at us when the coffee is not made. We need to renegotiate this unspoken contract as quickly as possible, before it becomes a matter of adverse possession.
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