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Boundaries…we all need them
Exploring Emotional Boundaries: A Guide to Understanding, Setting, and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries in Relationships
Good emotional boundaries mean being strong and clear about being positive and confident in making decisions about when you will relate to others and how you will work with them. They allow you to respect your own thoughts and feelings and live responsibly in a network of human relations with caring, feeling, positive people.
Awareness of the problems of being too close or too enmeshed and setting emotional boundaries can have an enormous impact on your life and well-being. Besides setting emotional boundaries with others, it's also important to work on yourself, which can help you establish and maintain the emotional boundaries that you want and need. Knowing yourself well means you will be able to identify your own feelings and thoughts and clearly communicate when necessary. Strong boundaries also keep other people from intruding on your feelings and thoughts, and set guidelines for how they should communicate with you.
Setting emotional boundaries and practicing healthy emotional boundaries can help you resolve issues with confidence and effectively handling communication and relationships, while allowing your family and other people in your life…
