The use of guilt-tripping and other manipulation techniques that aim at coercing people into doing what they do not want to do are boundary violations.
When such experiences occur repeatedly during childhood, your ability to understand that you have a right to say 'no', that you have a right to set and maintain your own boundaries is severely affected.
If your boundaries weren’t respected in your childhood, you may believe you don’t have a right to have them, and most likely you don’t know how to communicate in an assertive way. But you can always learn to be more assertive by expressing your needs and wants in a positive way, and learning to say "no" when you need to.
Setting and maintaining personal boundaries isn’t selfish. It's self care.
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