The Importance of Setting Boundaries

Resentments are essentially a evolutionary ingrained way that alerts us to the fact that we feel unacknowledged, less respected than others. A failure to set boundaries leads to a diminishment of our agency and especially of course, our self-esteem. If you're avoidant or dismissive in your attachment style, you probably are setting wonderful, overly strong boundaries naturally. On the other hand, if you're an anxious individual and attachments, boundaries will be excruciatingly difficult because your underlying expectation is abandonment. The longer we rely on avoidance, the longer we put off setting boundaries, the more vulnerable will feel in our relationships.