Times Boundaries Are Hard To Set With Family, But Important
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You aren’t wrong for setting boundaries
Putting up boundaries with family members can come with feelings of guilt, especially if you’re new to doing it. That doesn’t mean you’ve done the wrong thing. “Sometimes you need an outside person to say, ‘You’re doing the best that you can under this current situation.’ That simple sentence can put things into perspective,” Jackson says. She says she likes to show them anybody else in their scenario would handle it the same way. “Also make sure there isn’t people-pleasing going on there. Oftentimes what I see with the people I work with, when they do feel bad, it’s because they’ve had a long history of pleasing everybody else,” she adds. “They can’t stand it when people are mad at them or if they make someone sad. Working through people-pleasing is probably a huge chunk of that as well.”
