Just like spending that gets out of control can bankrupt a person’s finances, expending too much emotionally can bankrupt a person’s well-being. We think we can just keep taking it. Overlooking it. Navigating around it. Making excuses for it. Reframing it. Numbing out so we don’t have to deal with it. Praying about it. Fussing about it. Crying about it. Ignoring it. Blaming it. Shaming it. And dropping a million hints about it. When people aren’t respectful of our limits, we can set boundaries, or we can pay consequences. Whatever the “it” is and whoever it involves, please know there is an
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