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Personal and Relational Boundaries

Gay Men Going Deeper

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The Power of Saying No

When you are a people pleaser, what you're really choosing to say yes to is comfort in that moment. And instead of choosing to say no and to live in that 90 seconds of uncomfort in order to have your freedom later? So what do you want now? Do you want that90 seconds of a comfort but total freedom later? Or do you want that comfort now in exchange for resentment later? That pairs perfectly with what you're talking about with guilt because that uncomfortable could come in the form of guilt. Yeah, definitely. It's like the good, the not so good, and then the good. You've got a sandwich, the complex sandwich.

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