How to set boundaries with family

Life Kit

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🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Maintaining healthy boundaries is a way of taking care of your closest relationships, but setting those boundaries can be hard. The process starts with asking yourself what you need. (This episode originally ran in January 2021.)

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0:00.0	This is NPR's Life Kit.
0:01.6	I'm Mary Elsigara.
0:03.3	So first of all, happy Thanksgiving.
0:05.9	I really hope you get to enjoy some time
0:07.4	with your loved ones today.
0:09.6	Also, let's be honest, sometimes our loved ones
0:12.8	get on our nerves or do things that make us feel uncomfortable
0:16.8	or unhappy or undermined.
0:19.8	Sometimes that even happens during family celebrations
0:22.7	in the midst of all the gratitude.
0:25.1	That, my friends, is what boundaries are for.
0:28.4	Today, we have a rerun on how to set boundaries with family
0:31.6	hosted by Life Kit contributor Julia Farlan.
0:34.6	Enjoy.
0:35.6	Hi, this is NPR's Life Kit, and I'm Julia Farlan.
0:41.9	And today, we're talking about a thing that honestly
0:44.8	makes me stressed just to think about.
0:47.9	We're talking about how to create and maintain boundaries
0:50.7	with the people in your life that you're closest to,
0:53.3	and who often confound you more than anyone, your family.
0:58.0	And just like family can mean a wide array of things
1:03.7	between chosen family and biological family,
	...

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