Boundaries, whoa! When I first started therapy many moons ago, I didn't have a clue about what having personal boundaries meant. I thought of boundaries in a geographical sense and never considered that people have a right to personal boundaries. Not having been raised to learn about healthy boundaries, this was an arena of knowledge that was completely foreign to me. And learning about it was a real eye opener for me. It was painfully difficult to intellectually absorb. I had to face the fact that many of the harmful things I experienced was directly related to not having learned and established secure healthy boundaries for myself. It's been a wild ride learning about boundaries. For me, they are 100% crucial for my well-being. I wish I had been taught them as a young child, but as they say, "Better late than never".