| How do you measure if you are successful at setting boundaries with someone? If they listen? If they don’t cross the boundary again the next time? If they don’t get mad at you? One of my clients who is navigating a divorce and has a young child said to me about her ex husband, “I hope that if I behave this way he will too and it will make co-parenting easier and better for our child”. I had hoped the same thing when I was co-parenting with my ex husband and we had our 2 year old (now 23!) to raise. And there were plenty of times that I thought to myself, “Why am I bothering to do this? It isn’t working!!” Or was it?… In the audio link below, I share with you what I said to my client about her hope and how to measure your success with setting boundaries. Click here to listen or to read the transcript. |
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