Setting Healthy Boundaries
I have a person close to me that frustrates me at times and I wonder if I’m being taken advantaged of.
Sometimes it’s difficult to understand if the request are just easier for the individual or if
I’m being taken advantage of.
In all relationships, it is important to set healthy boundaries.
This includes:
- Knowing what I am/am not willing to do
- Respecting myself
- Acknowledging the warning signs
- Being in charge of my choices
- Not allowing others to put me down or hurt me
- Not being embarrassed or shamed
- Acknowledging my feelings {as well as the other person’s}
- Know my limits
- Be honest
- Take care of myself
- Realize I can’t do it all
- Don’t over commit or be made to feel guilty
- Be firm
Even Jesus set boundaries with his disciples and followers.
Luke 16:13 says, “No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.”
If I had done this in other friendships and relationships, the end may have been much different.
How do you deal with setting boundaries?
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