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Speaker 1: Wine Down with Janna Kramer and I'm Heart Radio podcast.

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Speaker 1: All Right, it's your Wine about It Thursday Therapy episode.

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Speaker 1: I am really excited to have Terry Cole on. She's

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Speaker 1: a licensed psychotherapist, global relationship and empowerment expert, and the

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Speaker 1: author of Boundary Boss, which we're gonna be talking about today.

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Speaker 1: It's the essential guy to talk true, be seen, and

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Speaker 1: finally live free. She's worked with many clients from stay

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Speaker 1: at home moms to celebrities and Fortune five hundred CEOs,

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Speaker 1: and so let's get her on to talk about her book. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Terry people, how are you, Terry. I'm Janna Yan Janna.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? You know what I'm doing pretty good? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, I feel I'm feeling good. I had

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Speaker 1: therapy yesterday, so I'm feeling you know, centered, and but

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Speaker 1: you know, they still have things to work on, right

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Speaker 1: like we all do life life exactly. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk to you. Your book sounds amazing

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Speaker 1: and it's I saw a little thing from it. So

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Speaker 1: this book is for women who are exhausted from overgiving, overdoing,

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Speaker 1: and even over feeling if you're getting it all done

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Speaker 1: at the expense of yourself, give yourself the gift of

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Speaker 1: boundary boss. And if you could, like, what is a

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Speaker 1: boundary boss to you? It's someone who knows themselves. You

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Speaker 1: know your preferences, your limits, your deal breakers, you have

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Speaker 1: the ability to share them readily with the people in

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Speaker 1: your life. Really, being a boundary boss means living a

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Speaker 1: self determined life because you're not spending all your time

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Speaker 1: people pleasing and self abandoning. Right. It's interesting though, I've

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Speaker 1: so I'm kind of how do I say I've I've

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Speaker 1: been a people pleaser. I'm going on the opposite. I'm

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Speaker 1: learning to not just people please and I'm learning to

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Speaker 1: have better boundaries. But it's interesting. I had I kind

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Speaker 1: of ran into a little bit of a situation the

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Speaker 1: other day where someone had texted me something and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: normally and I did even in that moment, I laughed,

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Speaker 1: I go hah, even though I didn't think it was funny,

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Speaker 1: and I kind of wish this person wouldn't text me that, right, So,

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Speaker 1: trying to do better in my work, I'm like, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to set a boundary to hey, don't please don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to have these text message being sent

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Speaker 1: to me right, So I said, hey, for the future,

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Speaker 1: I would appreciate it if you don't send these kind

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Speaker 1: of text messages as I just don't like, I'm in

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Speaker 1: a different place in my life and I don't really

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Speaker 1: care about this message and so I would just appreciate

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Speaker 1: that moving forward. But their response was wow, like wow,

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Speaker 1: just trying to be respectful, and I'm like, and I go,

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Speaker 1: my tone was not a great I'm just simply saying

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Speaker 1: but I'm like. I then felt like I had to

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Speaker 1: defend myself for my boundary and that's where I was like,

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Speaker 1: and so I did because I wanted them to know,

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Speaker 1: because I know text is so hard right with tone.

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Speaker 1: So then I said, I think you're mister understanding my

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Speaker 1: text tone. I also just need to express to you

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Speaker 1: that I don't want to get these messages anymore, and

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Speaker 1: that's okay for me to ask that. But then I

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Speaker 1: felt guilty and then I was like, oh, shoot, should

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Speaker 1: I call this person and be like, hey, sorry, But

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Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm not sorry. I said what I

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Speaker 1: needed you took it as offensive. So now I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of like, what do I do. Well. Part of it

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Speaker 1: is you're not that fragile, so you being uncomfortable for

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Speaker 1: a little, It is okay because you're doing something new.

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Speaker 1: This will become if you keep going, Jenna, this will

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Speaker 1: become your new normal. And we can care that someone

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Speaker 1: else didn't like, love our boundary and lovingly hold on

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Speaker 1: to our boundary. Right, You weren't making that person wrong.

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Speaker 1: He didn't say you're a jerk for sending it to me.

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Speaker 1: You basically said I would not like to receive these

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Speaker 1: going forward, and lang could help you know, I like to.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of them sentenced stem sort of

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Speaker 1: starters of And even in that situation, let's just say,

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Speaker 1: if we had a redo, you could type I'd like

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Speaker 1: to make a simple request that in the future you

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Speaker 1: leave me off of this type of text forward or

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Speaker 1: whatever the person was doing like this, I'd appreciate. Thank you, right,

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Speaker 1: thank you, I appreciate that. So I also assume that

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Speaker 1: do when I've set a boundary, So thank you for

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Speaker 1: respecting my boundary. So what we're setting them up a

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Speaker 1: by calling it a simple request, because here's the truth,

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Speaker 1: everything we ask from anyone is a simple request. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're going to do it, but certainly, it's

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Speaker 1: not complicated for that person to stop sending you text

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Speaker 1: messages right right now, it's simple right now. But then

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Speaker 1: now they think I'm being aggressive. Here's the thing though,

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Speaker 1: it's so hard for me because I want to say, like,

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Speaker 1: that's my tone. Wasn't like that, Like I don't like

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Speaker 1: that's where my work is still getting there. But also,

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Speaker 1: let yourself be uncomfortable. Have compassion for the fact that

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Speaker 1: you did something that felt scary. You did a brave

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Speaker 1: thing that you know is aligned with better mental health

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Speaker 1: for you, which is why you did it, And give

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Speaker 1: yourself credit for that, and let yourself feel a little uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. We hate to feel misunderstood, right, we

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Speaker 1: hate to feel that someone is misconstruing. But here's what

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Speaker 1: really matters is what your intention was, which was to

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Speaker 1: set up a limit with this person that you are

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Speaker 1: asking them not to cross by don't text me those

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Speaker 1: things in the future. That's your right. You could go

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Speaker 1: be totally agro and like completely block them, like you

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Speaker 1: know that there's you're not being extreme right in what

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Speaker 1: you said or what you did, but your desire to

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Speaker 1: control their feelings. Right. This really goes this is you know,

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Speaker 1: disordered emotional boundaries, but it goes into codependency. Right. There's

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Speaker 1: a certain amount of codependency that comes when you think about,

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Speaker 1: like what is codependency? Right? We hear all about it,

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Speaker 1: but does anyone really understand is that you're just wanting

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Speaker 1: the other person to be happy above your own happiness. Listen,

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Speaker 1: that's a simple way of putting it. But it's more

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Speaker 1: than that, right, Right, Because if I were to describe it,

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Speaker 1: I would say my definition of codependency is being overly

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Speaker 1: invested in the feeling states, the outcomes, the decisions, the

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Speaker 1: circumstances of the people in our life, to the detriment

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Speaker 1: of our own internal peace, or to the detriment to

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Speaker 1: our mental wellness, our financial wellbeing, our physical wellbeing. Right.

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Speaker 1: Because maybe you're giving somebody money or whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: and what is at the base the basement of that,

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Speaker 1: The foundation of that is disordered boundaries. Because we are

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Speaker 1: unclear where we end and that person begins. We feel

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Speaker 1: overly responsible for their feeling, We feel overly responsible for

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Speaker 1: what we think they're thinking. Right, we want to change it.

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Speaker 1: But again, at the base of this is a covert

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Speaker 1: and sometimes we just have to go it's okay. If

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Speaker 1: they misunderstand me, it's okay. You don't want to have

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Speaker 1: your right to have your text message space be a

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Speaker 1: sacred place for you. Right. You want to protect yourself

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Speaker 1: and whatever that thing was that you didn't like, that's

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Speaker 1: your right. And if people are going to get offended,

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Speaker 1: and they will at times, especially if this is new behavior,

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Speaker 1: and especially if these are established or older relationships. So

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Speaker 1: when we think about starting to have better boundaries in life,

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Speaker 1: communicating more effectively the people that it can be the

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Speaker 1: most challenging with our family of origin because when you

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Speaker 1: think about what are boundaries, what are relational stuff, It's

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Speaker 1: they're like dances, right, It's like I do this, you

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Speaker 1: a well sort of orchestrated and understood way of behaving.

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Speaker 1: When we change that dance, the people we've been dancing

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Speaker 1: with the longest, obviously they're going to notice that you're

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Speaker 1: changing your steps, and that's okay. They feel threatened. The

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Speaker 1: reason why people get offended. Part of it is ego,

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Speaker 1: of course, but a lot of times when we're starting

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Speaker 1: or that they'll lose us in some way. They may

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Speaker 1: being a therapist for twenty five years, this fear is real.

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Speaker 1: And so it's not just their desire to sort of

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Speaker 1: It's a fear that this is like a new interaction

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Speaker 1: in this relationship. We don't normally interact this way, and

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Speaker 1: it's scaring me. So I always say, listen, we can

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Speaker 1: like Bob from Accounting, who's being inappropriate, Like a little

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Speaker 1: heat might be good, but that's on us. And I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of the myths around healthy boundaries is

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Speaker 1: that if you have them, year a bit. If you

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Speaker 1: have them, you're rejecting people left and right, or verbally

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Speaker 1: that really isn't true because healthy boundaries usually have some

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Speaker 1: having rigid boundaries. So if you have someone who's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: someone who's healthy. That's someone who has disordered boundaries. They're

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Speaker 1: whoever's that's fine too. So I think the myths around

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Speaker 1: That's definitely the piece that I've struggled with is the boundary,

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Speaker 1: don't need to have I don't want to hug that person.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not going to and that uncomfortable feeling

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Speaker 1: I sat with and then it went away, but I

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Speaker 1: was like, Okay, it showed me that I can do it.

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Speaker 1: But also it still was like I'm the kind of

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Speaker 1: Like even like how i'd handle with my ex husband.

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Speaker 1: Now it's like I just I just I just want

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Speaker 1: with my boundary piece. Well, here's the thing. I totally

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Speaker 1: get it because we're lovers, right, We're like, life is good.

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Speaker 1: Let's just all get along, Like, what's the problem. It's

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Speaker 1: not a big deal, it's fine. Like we're always the

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Speaker 1: as a long term goal, there'd be no problem with that.

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Speaker 1: put people into categories where we have boundary first timers.

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Speaker 1: So there are people that maybe you thought for years

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Speaker 1: Let's say, right, but you haven't said anything to them,

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Speaker 1: so we're going to consider them first timers. But then

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Speaker 1: you have the people who are the repeat offenders, which

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Speaker 1: is what you're talking about, where yes, it might take

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Speaker 1: a minute for an established relationship to do a new

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Speaker 1: boundary dance. That's true. But if you find yourself in

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Speaker 1: groundhog day of frustration having the same conversations with no

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Speaker 1: change behavior, now you have your decision to make about

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Speaker 1: is this a deal breaker? Is this a preference? Is

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Speaker 1: this a limit? Like not all boundaries are created equal, right,

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Speaker 1: A preference is I really don't want to go to

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Speaker 1: bed late at night. You go to bed late at night,

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Speaker 1: but I don't my preferences. You would come to bed

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Speaker 1: earlier with me. Maybe your partner will sometimes maybe they won't,

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Speaker 1: but that probably wouldn't be a deal breaker. Let's say

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Speaker 1: monogamy being faithful. For some people, that's a deal breaker

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Speaker 1: if you tell the person, hey, if you step out,

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Speaker 1: we're done, because that is a deal breaker for me.

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Speaker 1: You let the person know if they step out, then

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Speaker 1: you and the relationship. So they're not all created equal.

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Speaker 1: But it's important that we know what's important to us,

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Speaker 1: what matters to us in the relationship, and we communicate

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Speaker 1: that to the best for our ability with repeat offenders. Though,

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Speaker 1: one thing that we usually need to do is to

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Speaker 1: establish consequences. Right, if you have someone who, let's just

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Speaker 1: say they were always late, but they don't let you know. Right,

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Speaker 1: and you're the person at home, maybe maybe you're making dinner,

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Speaker 1: or you're ordering in or whatever the thing is, planning

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Speaker 1: to eat together, you make the request, Hey, I'd like

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Speaker 1: to make a simple request that if you're going to

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Speaker 1: be more than ten or fifteen minutes late, that you

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Speaker 1: giving it a text heads up, so I'll keep the

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Speaker 1: food hot, or I won't plan to eat so whatever.

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Speaker 1: If they keep not doing it, an appropriate consequence would say, hey,

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Speaker 1: we've had this conversation four times. Four times you told

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Speaker 1: me you were going to let me know, you didn't.

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Speaker 1: If it happens again, I'm eating without you. I'm no

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Speaker 1: longer planning to have dinner with you. You can, I'll

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Speaker 1: put it in the fridge. You can eat alone when

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Speaker 1: you get home. Now. That may sound petty, or that

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Speaker 1: may sound like who cares. But for some people, if

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Speaker 1: you eat together every night, you're doing something different. That

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Speaker 1: says I'm not just going to tolerate the same behavior

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Speaker 1: over and over again and complain about it. There has

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Speaker 1: to be some kind of consequence, and sometimes the consequences

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Speaker 1: ending the relationship eventually, right, I mean, listen, those are

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Speaker 1: all really and it's it's interesting because the holding to

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Speaker 1: the boundaries and then the consequences is something that I

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Speaker 1: was awful at. So I would, you know, be like,

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Speaker 1: all right, well, if you do it again, I'm leaving you.

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Speaker 1: Well I think I said that five million times, and

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Speaker 1: then we came to a place where the person doesn't

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Speaker 1: believe then your your non negotiables, and your I guess

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Speaker 1: quote unquote threats right to leave the relationship. So they're

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Speaker 1: not going to stop doing what they're doing if you

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Speaker 1: don't stand by what your bottom line was. And that's

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Speaker 1: that was kind of like a hard lesson that I learned. Apps.

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Speaker 1: It's so true because the bottom line is we're teaching them,

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Speaker 1: but they can keep doing it by not enforcing a consequence. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well literally teaching them, you know. But by doing boundaries

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Speaker 1: and all these things, you can finally live free and

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Speaker 1: you can feel good about it. And so in order

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Speaker 1: to do that, check out Boundary Boss the essential guy

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Speaker 1: to talk true, be seen, and finally live free. Terry,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for having me. I appreciate you,