Healthy Boundaries MRR Ebook

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INTRODUCTION

In order to protect their property, homeowners put up fences. This often discourages intruders from entering or destroying the land and home. Since this practice is seen in all cultures and histories, fencing your property is a great way to ensure that people don't damage or intrude on your home.

If you are willing to protect your physical property by putting up fences, why are you not willing to put up boundaries to protect yourself? Boundaries are invisible fences for your emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing. If you do not set up boundaries, people can easily infringe on your rights and make you feel disrespected.

Unfortunately, many people are clueless about how to set up boundaries and feel that setting boundaries makes them a bad person. This could not be further from the truth. In contrast, setting boundaries allows you to be better respected and creates healthier and happier relationships with those around you.

In this guide, we're going to look at the key factors for setting healthy boundaries. We begin by defining boundaries and learning how to set them. Then, we look at boundaries within your dating life, family, work, and yourself. After that, we address people who resist your boundaries and learn how to measure the success of your boundaries.

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Boundaries are imaginary lines that separate your physical space, feelings, needs, and responsibilities from others. These boundaries let other people know your expectations for how they should treat you. Without boundaries, people may take advantage of you or make you feel badly or uncomfortably.

Many people find setting boundaries to be difficult. The reason for this is that for the boundary to work, you must be willing to tell someone who has crossed a boundary that they are in the wrong. In other words, you must be able to stand up for yourself and confront another person.

Boundaries are imperative to having healthy relationships that are beneficial to both you and the other person. If you do not set and enforce your own boundaries, people may not know how to treat you. This is no fault of their own. If you do not tell others your boundaries, they will not be able to respect them. So, it is your responsibility to set and enforce your boundaries.

Why Do I Need Boundaries?

Boundaries are key to having happy and successful relationships with other people. There are several reasons why you need boundaries. Here are the most important:

1. Boundaries allow you to be your most authentic self When you create and enforce boundaries, you draw an invisible line between you and another person. As a result, you become a unique individual who is separate from everyone else. This allows you to have your own feelings, make your own decisions, and know what you need without trying to please others, allowing you to be your most authentic self.

2. Boundaries are self-care

One of the most important aspects of self-care is valuing and respecting your own needs and feelings. Creating boundaries means that you put your needs and emotions above the needs and emotions of someone else healthily and respectfully.

As a result, you focus on your needs instead of worrying about what someone else wants from you. This acts as a form of self-care because it allows you to cherish yourself by doing what you need and want.

3. Boundaries set realistic expectations with clear directions Whenever you set a boundary, you and the other party involved become explicitly aware of what is expected of each other. As a result, the relationship’s expectations become realistic and come with clear directions. Normally, people behave correctly when they know what is expected of them. So, setting boundaries and providing clear directions creates realistic expectations that all parties can respect.

4. Boundaries protect you emotionally and physically One of the most important reasons that you should set boundaries is that they protect you emotionally and physically. The reason for this is that boundaries tell you how you should be treated. If someone repeatedly breaks your boundaries, whether they be emotional or physical, you immediately know that that person does not care about you and your feelings.

As a result, you become keenly aware of who you should let into your life and who you should avoid. This allows you to protect yourself from uncomfortable or hurtful situations.

Types of Boundaries

Whenever you are starting to set your own boundaries, it is important to keep in mind the six general areas where boundaries apply. These different areas interact with different parts of your life and wellbeing. Here are the 6 types of boundaries:

Material Boundaries

material boundaries relate to physical objects such as money, clothes, books, a hairbrush, or anything else that is a physical object that you own. Material boundaries are expectations of how you and the other party should act whenever material objects are borrowed, sold, or jointly shared. It is important to set material boundaries so that friendships and relationships are not ruined over material objects.

Physical Boundaries

Physical boundaries relate to your personal space, privacy, and body. They set rules for how you and another party should interact on a physical relationship. These physical boundaries can range from appropriate settings to give a handshake versus a hug, when you expect a borrowed item to be returned, or how loud your roommate plays their music. Physical boundaries are different from sexual boundaries, which will be discussed later.

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