Key insights from
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
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14 minute read
Published Apr 1, 1992
What you'll learn
This book has been a bestseller for over 30 years. It’s helped people learn how to allow good to flow into their lives and say “no”’ to what’s toxic in their relationships with family, friends, lovers, and self.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Boundaries show us who we are and what belongs to us.
- 2 Boundaries help us in our relationships with family, spouses, kids, friends—even God.
- 3 Boundaries malfunction in four different ways.
- 4 When we don’t learn boundary creation early in life, it becomes harder (but not impossible) to create boundaries later in life.
- 5 Regaining contact with the realities of relationships helps us know where to place our boundaries.
- 6 New boundaries will generate tensions within you and with others.