Boundaries

You finally said no. Or you set a limit on how often you’ll take a call, what topics are off the table, how much access your parent has to your time. And within minutes — sometimes seconds — the guilt arrived. Not because you did something wrong. Because you did something different. If you grew up with a parent whose needs quietly organized the household — whose moods set the emotional temperature, whose approval felt conditional, whose love came with an invisible string attached — this feeling is familiar. And here’s what I want you to sit with before we […]