How do I stop feeling like the bridge everyone uses but no one values?

You sit between the technical world and the sales world, and you hold them together. Everyone leans on the bridge, and no one quite calls it theirs. That is a real loneliness — being essential and unclaimed at the same time. The very thing that makes you valuable is what makes you feel like you belong to no one. A bridge is not a lesser thing than the land on either side. Nothing crosses without it. The deals that close and the products that work do so because you translate between two worlds that cannot speak to each other. That is rare and it is skilled. But being the connector should not mean being invisible, and you are right to want to be seen. So claim yourself, since no one else will do it for you. Name your own function out loud — to your leadership, to your teams. Ask for the recognition and the ownership that fits what you actually carry. A bridge that asks to be counted is not being needy. It is refusing to be taken for granted.