Setting Boundaries - Is No the Best Thing to Say?

No is a complete sentence. When you're not comfortable setting boundaries, no is the best thing to say without saying anything else. After you've been pretty clear, we have to repeat ourselves. And we have to do that if we want to stay in a relationship with people who refuse to listen to a boundary. We have to be consistent even when they aren't - because it is our boundary and it is our request. It's only over the last few years that i've probably not been, not been really dramatically affected by guilt like i think a lot of times i was operating out of guilt.