It will take more than one attempt to communicate your boundaries. Keep going!
If you think you can go from having no boundaries to suddenly having them or expressing them once and that people will roll over or thank you for it, think again. The truth is, some people are very used to your old boundaries and may take some time to adjust....Please don’t wait around for people to do the right thing by you
In situations where, to you, the ‘right’ thing seems obvious, it’s easy to assume that the other party does too. In fact, when it comes to boundaries, we humans often veer between extremes. We think someone wouldn’t do something if it weren’t...