Boundaries and Relationships
- Especially when you're putting up a boundary with someone that you love and that you really care for, you're changing the way that something's going to go. You're changing a dynamic.
- You have to grieve the loss of who you thought that person could be for you and reconstruct what's possible with the person that you actually have.
- Usually, when a person isn't respecting your boundaries it's because they can't. It is really on us to change the way in which we engage.
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