Quotes About Boundaries

We share our secrets when we're ready and not a minute before.

You think your parents are there just to love and irritate you. You see them as satellites spinning round your sun and you try to run away across the universe while they chase you.

I think getting information you didn't ask is one of the basic features of dating apps.

Everyone oohed and wanted details, but I kept it PG 13, not that there were any R moments. Josh wasn't that kind of guy. In fact, he had such a high code of ethics, I found myself watching what I said around him. There were things he didn't need to know.

The line between passionate and crazy can be a thin one.

Say 'no' more than 'yes ' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

You back down and they're gonna walk all over you. Not just today, but every goddamn day.

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

Only in retrospect do I appreciate that this "doing your bit" is a deadly misapprehension of the nature of familial ties. Better understanding them now, I find blood relationships rather frightening. What is wonderful about kinship is also what is horrible about it: there is no line in the sand, no natural limit to what these people can reasonably expect of you.

We all do it (or I used to-yes, once in a while, Franklin, what did you think?), we all know we all do it, but it isn't customary to say, "Honey, could you keep an eye on the spaghetti sauce, because I'm going to go masturbate.

I have reflected on the fact that for most of us, there is a hard, impassable barrier between the most imaginatively detailed depravity and its real-life execution.

Los chicos nunca parecían darse cuenta de que «sus» habitaciones eran un acto de generosidad por parte del padre, que había pagado toda la casa. Legal, moral y económicamente, Shep tenía derecho a entrar en ese cuarto siempre que quisiera. Con todo, cierta vaga conciencia de que en realidad los niños no tenían territorio podría haber explicado por qué defendían con semejante fiereza su ilusión de tenerlo.

Some people think that asking a question gives them a right to know the answer somehow. Well, it's not true. You've no right to anything. I'll tell you what I want to. I don't care what you ask.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Party parents figure that if their daughter is going to do risky things when with her friends, she'll be safer if she and her friends do those risky things right under their noses. But party parents rob their daughter of one of the best protections she has: the ability to blame her good behavior on them.

girls know when they're stepping over a boundary and find it strange when adults seem not to notice.

People don't do nice things for people who are mean to them. Better for your daughter to learn this lesson before she leaves your home than after she is out on her own.

In good marriages, partners can help their children appreciate what they should and shouldn't take personally in the other parent's behavior. My husband has told our daughters that I've been clean crazy for as long as he's known me and that he stopped taking it personally years ago.

Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives.

That movie Fatal Attraction really ruined things for women. I mean, you can't even call a guy 150 times a day anymore without having them get all bent out of shape.

No doubt he'd been with Heidi until all hours of the morning. He knew where she stood about sex, condoms, his future, Heidi's ... bringing it up now would only exacerbate an already prickly situation. "Nothing good happens after midnight," she reminded him. "You're wrong, Mom, and you know it.

I will never guilt trip my children when they are adults, she'd vowed. I will never expect more than they are

Men don't know, she thinks, they don't know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it's possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too.