How to Set Boundaries With Friends
Have you ever had a friend that no matter what you told her, always came up with a better way to do the thing that you want to do? Or she has a different opinion about what you’ve said you want to buy? Or she has another choice about where to take your life which is opposite to the direction that you want for your life? Nothing that you ever say seems to be right for you according to her…. nothing ever satisfies her – she always knows better than you do. Abuse doesn’t only occur in relationships, it occurs in friendships too. Here is where learning how to set boundaries with friends becomes very important.
For a friend to constantly keep telling you about other options to what you’ve shared with her, it means that she is knowingly or unknowingly trying to undermine you. If, whenever you set a boundary with her you say “Please do not tell me what to do all the time,” she then keeps doing the thing that you’ve asked her not to do, she is showing you a lack of respect because she’s going ahead and doing what she wants to do, not what you’ve asked her to do or not do. This is very disrespectful and you don’t have to put up with it.
Some friends think that they are helping by constantly pushing their opinion on you, but really, they aren’t. They are infringing on you, and they are disrespecting you. They are saying, in a subtle way, that they know better than you, that you don’t know the right choices, that their choice for you is better than the one you’ve decided upon, and that you’re not capable of making your own decisions. Now, this might be a misguided way of trying to help you.
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Thanks for reading,
Psychic Madeline Rose
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