Healthy boundaries are a basic building block of healthier relationships. The ability to someone no without guilt is an essential skill if you’d like to begin practicing interpersonal boundaries and build more self-respect. Even if you feel guilty about saying no, you can still say no. Don’t make decisions out fear. Or, as I like […]
Dating Again, Part 4: What You Lose by Becoming Healthy (the End of the Codependent-Narcissist Fairy Tale)
The Dating Again article and video series takes a different approach to dating after you’ve been in a bad relationship, or series of bad relationships. Rather than focusing on how to spot red flags and other warning signs a potential partner is FUBAR, self-absorbed, immature, a gold digger, personality disordered and/or a garden variety nightmare biped […]
Boundaries Protect You from Narcissists and Borderlines, Part 1: The Golden Rule
If you’ve been in a relationship (or series of relationships) with emotionally manipulative, self-absorbed, empathy-challenged, immature people, I have to ask, do you have healthy boundaries? Any boundaries? Do you know what a boundary is? Perhaps you have some boundaries, but they were too anemic to deter a determined emotional predator. Thus, your boundaries were […]
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