August/September 2025 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 111

2. Boundaries break down relationships. Every. Time.
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2. Boundaries break down relationships. Every. Time.
Boundaries create separation. If a boundary works, it ultimately forces one person to submit to another person. Not cool. No one likes that. You don’ t like it. No one likes it.
This has already been proven in our world right now.‘ So called’ relationship experts have been pushing‘ boundaries’ as a silver bullet for a few decades now. It makes their job easier because instead of creating a real solution for both people to be happy( which they don’ t have) they can just tell you to‘ establish a boundary’. It makes the client happy because they seemingly get what they want. Except … oops, it doesn’ t work because all humans hate to be told to obey.
Thank goodness, in today’ s world people do NOT stay in relationships where they are being told to obey.
So, if you look, around today, you will notice that humanity is in a loneliness epidemic.
This is a predictable outcome. If you spend decades telling millions of people to‘ establish boundaries’, which cause
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