We set boundaries so we know what to do when we very much want to love those around us really well without losing ourselves in the process. Good boundaries help us preserve the love within us even when some relationships become
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“Of course, our parents get an extra dose of importance in our minds. When we’re little, they’re everything—the gods and goddesses that rule our worlds. It takes a lot of growing up, and a lot of disappointment, to accept that they’re just normal, bumbling, mistaken humans, like everybody else.”
― Things You Save in a Fire
― Things You Save in a Fire
“Maybe I needed to feel safe and accepted in my pain before I was set free from this daily misery.”
― Archer's Voice
― Archer's Voice
“Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too.”
― Counting the Cost
― Counting the Cost
“Jesus didn’t enable people. Jesus didn’t beg people. Jesus didn’t accept excuses for sin or let people off the hook because they were mostly good.”
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
― Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
“How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? How do we laugh and feel happiness despite the buried things growing inside? How can we do that day after day?”
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
― I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
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