This is a tough subject to tackle, but I’m going to go ahead and tackle it. Boundaries are such an important part of our relationships, and they are very easy to get wrong. I realize that wednesday is “Mental Health Post” day, and this could very well wait until “Relationship Post” day, but I believe that it is applicable in such a wide variety of contexts that I’m going to just roll with it. Basically, boundaries are how we organize our relational influences. There are three basic types: diffuse, flexible, and rigid. They are on a spectrum, so it’s not always just one or another. The Three Types of Boundary The boundary spectrum moves from being very open (diffuse) to very closed (rigid), and towards the middle is the flexible region. Ideally, flexible boundaries are where we want to be, but people tend to be really good at justifying being rigid or diffuse. Both of these carry with them numerous risk factors. Diff...

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