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The Dr. Laura Podcast

The Definition of "Boundary"

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Katie gets a lesson on the meaning of the word "boundary" and when it should be applied. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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Hi, Dr. Laura, thank you for having me.

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You're welcome.

0:48.0

What's happening?

0:49.0

I'm trying to understand how to move forward with my life.

0:55.0

I went to see a therapist about a year ago.

1:00.0

I was trying to save my eight-year relationship with my now ex-fiancé and she said that I'm

1:08.6

invisible to everyone in my life and so I spent a year kind of trying to fix that actually mean. Can you tell me what that means? I don't know yet what that means. I think that it means that in terms of my family dynamics and in terms of my ex relationship that my needs get forgotten my my like I would say, hey, I really have this soundry, can you believe listen to it, and people just kind of ignore those things.

1:42.0

No, people are not supposed to listen to your boundary. You got one of those therapists, they piss me off. Boundaries, first of all I don't like the psycho babble and I think it's mostly for cattle to keep it on one side of a fence.

1:54.0

It's more of an ultimatum. People should not be using the word boundary.

1:58.0

If you don't wish somebody to do, say, be whatever it is something, that doesn't stop them.

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The operant part of that is that you already have in your mind.

2:09.5

If they breach that, what you're going to provide as a consequence. That's what, quote, a boundary, end quote,

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needs to be. It's not an order or command for somebody else.

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