05/18/2026
Nope. It can be hard setting a boundary with family, And it just might save your life.
“The difficult relative.”
No, I just stopped staying quiet to keep everyone else comfortable.
The moment you stop tolerating disrespect, guilt trips, toxic behavior, or one sided relationships, suddenly you’re “hard to deal with.” But people who benefited from your lack of boundaries will almost always call boundaries a problem.
I’m not difficult.
I’m just no longer willing to abandon myself to make other people comfortable anymore.