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Why I can't stick to boundaries even when I know they're necessary

I keep setting boundaries with my mother and then feeling so guilty I immediately break them and let her cross every line again.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind confuses guilt with moral failure, creating suffering around necessary self-protection.

Ideas that help explain it
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