The Importance of Boundaries in Relationships

So many of us grow up in environments that are boundaryless with lacking boundaries, little boundaries, or really no boundaries at all. For me growing up, the term boundary was really only a word that I had heard in basketball practice or in other sports practice. So over the years as an adult, I began then witnessing what my own response to boundaries was. Someone sets a boundary with you? Well, how does that feel? Immediately for me, it would feel very foreign and very threatening. And someone setting a boundary with me immediately became kind of a personal attack when I didn't have a full understanding or knowledge of the importance of boundaries.