Moving in together or starting married life brings a wave of excitement. You picture shared breakfasts, movie marathons, and a permanent slumber party with your favorite person. Reality often hits ...

If you've ever apologized for having needs or felt that familiar knot of guilt when saying "no," psychology reveals that your ...

Your approach to boundaries may be helping—or quietly hurting—your relationships. This quiz helps you find out.

Saying no isn’t abandonment, it’s what happens when a friendship starts acting like a full-time job.

Generation Z are rewriting workplace rules with unapologetic boundaries around time, energy and wellbeing. While their approach may seem inflexible to some, could their insistence on protecting their ...

Q. Tell me how to set boundaries and keep them. I have trouble saying no to friends, for one thing. I also can’t seem to keep my mouth shut – I overshare in person and online. Finally, I put up with ...

Setting healthy boundaries Think of boundaries as promises you make to yourself about how you will respond to others when their actions or words conflict with your self-worth, communication style and ...

Boundaries tend to upset people who benefit from ignoring them.

An enmeshed relationship is one in which interpersonal boundaries are blurred. The people involved become so emotionally intertwined that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. This ...

Proponents have commandeered the phrase “act your wage” to encourage workers to do just what they are paid to in an attempt at setting boundaries at work. Company executives and some careers experts ...

Boundaries protect what’s important. Setting boundaries on how we expend our energy, attention and time allows us to sustain these resources for the different arenas that matter in our lives, work, ...