noun: hibernation:

The condition or period of an animal or plant spending the winter in a dormant state.

We only have the capacity for so much. Once at our limit, there are times when we have to choose to put something, or even, someone on hold. Not because of unimportance, but because other things or other people are requiring all that we have to give. The best thing to do in those situations is to find the honest and loving language to share where we are, and why perhaps for a season, we can’t be what we’ve been in the past, and hope to be again in the future.

Hibernation isn’t the end. It is a time of dormancy so that life can emerge once again on the other side.