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Podcast 473: The difference between setting boundaries & controlling someone’s actions

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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Setting Boundaries in Romantic Relationships

Some of the most common issues I hear in romantic relationships can't actually be solved by a simple boundary. So for example, my husband is not sharing his equal partnership and he only helps if I ask him to. You can't fix that with a simple boundary because you can't say, I'm not doing dishes anymore. That just hurts the entire household. But there are certainly some scenarios. One example is the person who just had a brand new baby and is about to go back to work. They need to have a conversation over who's going to manage sort of baby duty in the morning when they're both at work.

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