Help me set a boundary I won’t drop the first time it’s tested.

A boundary in two sentences, what you’ll do instead, and a calm line for when it gets tested.


When to use
When you keep saying yes to something you resent, and the resentment is starting to leak.
Time
5 min
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The hard conversation

The prompt

I need to set a boundary with about . Right now I usually . Write the boundary in two sentences I could say out loud: what I’m no longer available for, and what I’ll do instead. It has to describe my own actions, not a rule for them or a punishment. Not like this: ‘You need to stop doing that.’ Then give me a kind reply to the pushback I’m most likely to get, and one calm line I can repeat if it keeps coming, with no new apology and no new explanation. Tell me honestly why they might experience this as sudden or unfair, and whether there’s a smaller ask I should try first.

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