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How to Set Boundaries with Oversharing Colleagues

My coworker keeps asking personal questions and oversharing about her life and I want to maintain professional boundaries but she seems lonely and I feel mean ignoring her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Professional kindness struggles with personal limits when someone's neediness meets workplace proximity.

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