
Ask a Catholic Therapist: Parenting, Boundaries, and Healing | Ep. 384
Pints With Aquinas
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Setting Boundaries in a Co-Dependant Parent-Child Relationship
How people respond to your boundaries doesn't determine the reasonableness of your boundaries. Just because somebody reacts poorly doesn't mean it's not a good boundary. Sometimes you lay down a healthy boundary and an unhealthy person is going to have an unhealthy reaction to a healthy boundary. And oftentimes we think of boundaries as being in conflict, conflictual. They're not even a thing you put in the middle of us. It's something you set up in order to perhaps have a more healthy relationship about 100%. So Christ had boundaries. When he goes, it's like he detaches from the crowds and he went up to a mountain to pray alone.
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