Boundaries are hardest to set with the people you’ve known the longest—your parents—and it’s natural to stress about how they’ll go over. “People worry that by asserting this preference, they’re tearing down the relationship or not honoring that emotional closeness,” says Henna Pryor, author of Good Awkward: How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become The Bravest You. “But actually, you’re upgrading the relationship for your adult life.”
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