Setting Boundaries With Family Always Starts a Fight

Setting boundaries with family rarely goes quietly the first time. You say no once and the people who have had access to you for decades push back — call it selfish, call it cold, act wounded in a way that makes you wonder if you did something wrong. That resistance is not evidence you were wrong. It is what happens when an old arrangement ends. Nelanthini Rajesan is a certified transformation coach who spent years as a people pleaser before learning exactly what it takes to hold a boundary when everyone around you is applying pressure to abandon it. What she shares about where to actually start when the family dynamic has always run on your compliance, why your reason for the boundary has to be strong enough to survive the pushback before you ever say the word no, and what changes in the relationship once the first boundary actually holds will give you the most practically grounded and personally honest family boundary conversation you have encountered. The pushback is not the end of the boundary. It is the test of it. This episode helps you pass. ────────────────────────────────────────── CONNECT WITH NELANTHINI RAJESAN 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nel.rajesan/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelanthini-rajesan/ ───────────────────────────────────────── Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices