Boundaries, Part 3

Boundaries, Part 3

No one can set boundaries for you. It’s like work: your boss is not going to call you one day and tell you you’re working too hard and you should take a vacation. No one in your life is going to say, “You really go above and beyond, you need to start taking care of...

Emotional Adulthood II

Ever since I’ve lived in my own home, I’ve always hated cleaning the floors. I would look at the wall-to-wall carpet in my apartment and think, Someone should really vacuum this  carpet. Did I mention that I lived alone? When I moved to a house with hardwood floors, I...

Emotional Adulthood

My email inbox got to overwhelming proportions this summer. As I worked on clearing it out last week, I realized that I’d missed a number of not-earth-shattering-but-not-trivial emails from a good friend of mine. I sent her an email apologizing for missing the emails...