Anwar White explains boundaries as two things: stating your preferences and naming what makes you comfortable. He gives example phrases you can actually use, and why even good partners need to hear them.
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Hello, my loves. I hope you're doing well today. I wanted to come on and talk about boundaries because no one's taught boundaries. And so I wanted to give you your first steps in terms of really establishing boundaries in your dating and love life. So I like to think of it in two ways, preference and comfortability. So when you are setting boundaries, talk about your preferences. I would prefer if you didn't talk to me that way or let's talk about comfortability. What you're doing right now is making me feel uncomfortable. Right. We're not taught boundaries. So I wanted to give you a foundational, like different phrases that you can go to so that you can start expressing yourself in a way that is going to set those boundaries in a healthy way. Why? Because even the best of the best guys are going to get it wrong a quarter of the time or a third of the time. So you're going to have to set those boundaries to make sure that the relationship can continue progressing. All right.