Standing your ground can come at a steep price, but you will never regret it.
I became stressed out, sick and buried under a pile of their work.
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Emerging cool, crisp and unapologetically unfeeling, my exit was at least satisfying.
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I can opt out of the game at any time, especially if it’s a lesson I don’t want to learn again. You can, too.
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Photo: Flickr/JOPHIELsmiles
If you have to ask for your boundaries to be respected, don’t bother – it already means it ain’t going to happen. Boundaries are behaviours.
That’s an interesting twist to the way people normally think about boundaries. I am going to noodle on it. Maybe that’s why it was so surprising. It reinforces the point that these people needed to be cut loose! Thank you for your comment.