Hi there, thanks for listening to the Sister Circle Podcast.

My name is Crystal Evans Hurst and I'm your host.

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to

help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. Today I want to talk to you about what it looks like to set boundaries in your friendships.

Besties and boundaries, yes you can set boundaries with your bestie because if you're going to have

great relationships in your life,

whether it's your spouse, whether it's your mother, your sister,

your coworker, or your best friend,

you have to be willing to understand

what healthy boundaries are that need to exist in your life and how to communicate those.

Can I tell you how many relationships get screwed up simply because we don't communicate what

we need, we don't communicate how far people should go, or we don't communicate how far people should go or we don't communicate when they've gone too far.

Whether you realize it or not, you have boundaries and this is the problem.

Often we're just not honest with ourselves about the fact that we have boundaries.

The problem is when people cross them, that we get all bent out of shape.

It's to your advantage to know the boundaries that you have and to communicate them in advance of you needing them.

Boundaries are not something that people have to earn.

So sometimes we think about boundaries as something that you do reactively.

You set boundaries because somebody crossed them or you set boundaries because somebody has to earn a right.

And some of those things may be true, but I want you to think about boundaries as

something you deserve something you need I like to think about how in a healthy

situation we set boundaries right we set boundaries, right? We set boundaries for kids. There are

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