SMNTY Classics: SMNTY Sets Some Boundaries

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What are healthy boundaries and how do we set them? How does boundary-setting look for women and other marginalized communities? We dig into the research of boundaries in all aspects of our lives, why they can be hard to maintain, tips for setting them, and the importance of respecting them in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:09.3	Hey, this is Annie.
0:10.5	And Samantha.
0:11.3	And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a prediction of IHeart Radio.
0:27.7	And for today, we are bringing back a classic on boundaries.
0:34.6	I think it continues to be a relevant conversation,
0:41.1	especially in our increasingly polarized world, but also for me personally,
0:49.6	and by extension, you personally, I have a lot of very fan-ish things that are happening coming up.
0:51.9	And it can be difficult for me to be like, you know what, I can have like everybody
0:59.6	I know in my life coming to this event. So it's a time where I'm thinking about boundaries
1:08.4	once again and how best to pursue them.
1:15.4	So we hope you enjoy this classic episode.
1:21.8	Hey, this is Annie.
1:22.6	And Samantha.
1:34.3	And welcome to Steph One Never Told You, a production of iHeartRadio. Okay, Annie, for today's episode, I have a pretty big, generic question, but, you know,
1:40.5	we'll see how well you do.
1:41.9	So, on average, how often do you think you've actually said no or declined a request in your adult life?
1:51.6	On average?
1:53.5	On average, I think it's shifted recently because of the pandemic, but before that, 10%, not often.
2:04.6	Not often at all.
2:06.3	And even now, like, during the pandemic, I'm still pretty bad.
2:09.3	But I have gotten better because I have a pretty good reason.
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