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The Boundary Paradox: How Limits Create Freedom

The Boundary Paradox: How Limits Create Freedom

Update: 2025-03-20
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Boundaries define limits in relationships, work, and the psyche, balancing autonomy and connection. In relationships, they prevent enmeshment and detachment, fostering respect. Professionally, they maintain ethics and prevent burnout. Intrapsychically, they regulate self-cohesion and unconscious influences.

Cultures shape boundary norms, with individualistic societies valuing personal space and collectivist ones emphasizing connection. Myths depict boundaries as transformative thresholds, like Janus symbolizing transition. The key dialectic is between rigidity and permeability—too rigid isolates, too porous exhausts. Healthy boundaries require self-awareness, clear communication, and adaptability. They are not barriers but tools for navigating relationships while preserving identity and well-being.

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The Boundary Paradox: How Limits Create Freedom

The Boundary Paradox: How Limits Create Freedom

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano