A boundary is a limit that we set between another person and ourselves. It can be helpful to think of it as an invisible fence that surrounds and protects us. A boundary helps us to understand where we end and others begin, and it helps us to know what is ours (our beliefs, needs, emotions, thoughts, physical and emotional spaces) and what is someone else’s. Setting boundaries is a skill that many of us learn as we enter adulthood, an acknowledgement that every individual is responsible for themselves.
Our ability to set boundaries successfully is established through learned behaviour, usually as a child. If in childhood we were denied privacy by
