I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello.

How are you doing?

A quick apology before I get into today's episode. In last week's episode where I talked about how you're allowed to have work boundaries, I mentioned that I have been sending a newsletter about why we don't have work

boundaries and that you could now add yourself to it but unfortunately because I've been going for a system migration

that finalized last week I didn't realize that I'd made an error with that link.

It has now been fixed and it's in the show notes for last week which is

baggage reclaim.co. UK.

forward slash 220 and I've also included it in this week's show notes which will be

at baggage reclaim.

co. UK forward slash 221. Okay let's get in to today's topic.

When we date someone to today's topic.

When we date someone or we have a romantic relationship with them

or we have a friendship with someone, or yes yes we're someone's family. We don't tend to

envision that one day we might have to block them or friend them for instance on Facebook or that because of

our unhealthy use of an app or just no longer wanting to engage with whoever it is

that we're having issues with that we are going to have to deactivate an

account or deleted altogether.

We like to think that we're somebody who doesn't have those kind of problems, that we're not somebody who has to do those things.

And so when we find ourselves in a situation that, yeah, is really communicating to us that we are going to need to take some form of decisive

action that we are going to need to block the person or unfriend them or unfollow or that we're

going to have to delete the app. We resist it. We don't want to be that person and we might actually continue engaging in the most painful

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