The importance of boundaries

As much as I have gone on in the past about the importance of putting boundaries in place to protect one’s mental state, for the first time ever, two weeks ago, the opportunity presented itself where I had to be explicit about them. Liberating is an understatement for how it felt. While we murmur to ourselves about our anticipated actions, I suppose it will always feel different from constantly playing our hypothetical circumstances in our minds when the situation actually presents itself.