21 counter-intuitive tweets that illustrate how boundaries can...
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Sep 12, 2025
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21 counter-intuitive tweets that illustrate how boundaries can benefit everyone involved:🧵
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Pep@peptalksblog
MYTH:
"Boundaries = rejections"
TRUTH:
You're not rejecting their personality. You're telling them what you do and don't like.
If they decide to go with the latter, they are rejecting 𝘺𝘰𝘶 as being a person with autonomy.
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"Boundaries = rejections"
TRUTH:
You're not rejecting their personality. You're telling them what you do and don't like.
If they decide to go with the latter, they are rejecting 𝘺𝘰𝘶 as being a person with autonomy.
x.com/peptalksblog/s…
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If, in order to maintain a relationship, you have to hide importants parts of you or compromise your values and boundaries, then you are not actually in that relationship.
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Meeting someone who can handle rejection without resentment is an experience of love.
Meeting someone with clear boundaries is an experience of trust.
Meeting someone with clear boundaries is an experience of trust.
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Heidi Priebe ✈️🌞@HeidiPriebe1
"What will allow me to stay in connection with this person without resenting them" is such a powerful question for figuring where your boundaries lie.
It's also a pretty neutral way to communicate them. "I don't want to feel resentful so here are the lines I need to draw."
It's also a pretty neutral way to communicate them. "I don't want to feel resentful so here are the lines I need to draw."
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What if everyone who is a source of stress in your life were sent as tough love teachers with one mission?
To get you to say: "It's time to fully love myself and let my boundaries reflect that."
To get you to say: "It's time to fully love myself and let my boundaries reflect that."
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Heidi Priebe ✈️🌞@HeidiPriebe1
All boundaries (that work) are self-boundaries.
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@TheOnlyTheodora Boundaries give us the freedom to relax.
Imagine how easy it would be to fully let go and relax while living in a house with no walls.
Imagine how easy it would be to fully let go and relax while living in a house with no walls.
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Chris Smeder@Chris_Smeder
Note to self:
As Joe Hudson says: boundaries are a method of telling people how to better love you.
They are not armour
They are not armour
They are not armour
As Joe Hudson says: boundaries are a method of telling people how to better love you.
They are not armour
They are not armour
They are not armour
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Taijitu Observer@taijitu_sees
Healthy boundaries function more as an interface than an impregnable wall. Health can be built by adding new negotiated interfaces.
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20/ Exploring our boundaries & desires together can be fun & deeply enlightening!
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The Wheel of Consent is a valuable framework for setting clear boundaries, deepening intimacy, and improving communication in relationships.
Here’s how it works and why it matters:
Here’s how it works and why it matters:
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21/ If setting boundaries feels challenging or intense, try playing with the tools from this thread.
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One of the most powerful life skills you can develop:
Building the capacity to feel.
So many issues across life are downstream of low feeling capacity that I think this should be core curriculum.
Here's why it matters and how to practice it: 🧵
Building the capacity to feel.
So many issues across life are downstream of low feeling capacity that I think this should be core curriculum.
Here's why it matters and how to practice it: 🧵
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Follow me @peptalksblog for more explorations on connecting with ourselves, each other and reality.
If you think others could benefit from this thread, I'd deeply appreciate you sharing the first post:
If you think others could benefit from this thread, I'd deeply appreciate you sharing the first post:
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RJ ✨@theRJIyer
I feel like when people bump up against your boundaries (and vice versa!), it's a normal, even necessary, part of relational reality. that's how you learn where you end and the other person begins, what's important to you, what your preferences are. there is no learning in a pristine space... some amount of bumping needs to happen. what's more, this whole process of setting and receiving boundaries with care and consideration can feel normal, second nature, and easeful. it doesn't have to be this tense, scary, or shame-evoking (!) experience.