When my parents don’t respect my boundaries, how can I find a middle ground between putting up with it and shutting them out?

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode, I talk with Cyd and address the question “When my parents don’t respect my boundaries, how can I find a middle ground between putting up with it and shutting them out?” Cyd expresses frustration at her parents’ inability to accept her for who she is without trying to manipulate the choices she makes.Cyd is doing a great job setting boundaries with her parents and genuinely wants to pursue a relationship with them. At the same time, she feels like she is going in circles havin...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.0	I am thrilled to welcome Sid to the program today.
0:48.6	Welcome, Sid.
0:50.2	Hello, lovely to be here.
0:52.4	Thanks for joining me.
0:54.1	What is your question for me today?
0:56.4	Okay, so my question is around boundaries.
0:58.8	Okay.
0:59.2	It's when my boundaries don't keep my parents from still trying to control my body choices and my life choices,
1:07.8	how do I find a middle ground between shutting them out and setting better
1:12.5	boundaries so I can help them try to understand it's not about them. Gotcha. Okay, so what have you
1:18.5	already tried, Sid? Well, I live across the world from them. Okay. So we only ever talk on the phone
1:26.0	and really it's kind of more just along with my mom
1:29.2	my dad follows what she decides and in the middle of conversations I'll stop talking about
1:38.0	things or I will kind of let her know like this is my choice this is what I feel good about this what does she say
1:46.3	what does she say that you're responding to there's lots of when you dot dot dot dot it hurts me because
1:53.3	dot dot dot or I'm your mother so this is why you should do this and what does she think you should do change change the way you a lot of it's
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