Rottweiler

You are the calmest presence in most rooms you are in, and also the most alert. You do not need to be busy and you do not need to be entertained; you want to be near the people who matter to you, with a clear view of everything else. When you commit you commit completely and quietly, and you will do unglamorous things for years without being asked or thanked. People underestimate how much of what works around them is you, which does not bother you as much as it should.

The difficulty is that you have made yourself the load-bearing wall and then never mentioned the weight. You do not ask for help, partly because you are capable and partly because needing something feels like a category error. You also read situations for risk faster than you read them for opportunity, so you talk people out of things that would probably have been fine. Both habits are protective and both narrow the world slightly every year. It is worth telling someone what you are carrying, once, just to see what happens.