I am a people pleaser since my childhood. People have walked over my boundaries all the time.As a child I was helpless,and brain washed and programmed to be people pleaser.My day started and ended with servitude. Friends and relatives took long vacations to our parents household I became the host as a child while adults enjoyed themselves. Even some of those so called nice friends of my dad are not even nice to me .They were predators. Now I try to enforce some boundaries. Like recently I had to visit a funeral with my parents.I was getting dressed in my room.My mom comes and whispers I should wear something else.Her suggestions were inappropriate for the occasion. I said no,she yelled at me immediately, Omg,you are so against cultural norms.You always were like that,blah ,blah..........Some people were sitting in the living room.They must be thinking I was the one dressing inappropriate and my mom was correcting me.In reality I was dressed for a funeral and her whispering suggestion was to dress like a party goer.How to enforce boundaries with such toxic people and how to stand your ground.I do try hard now to do that.
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