7 Ways to Maintain Healthy Boundaries

Maintaining healthy boundaries in all aspects of life involves defining them, enforcing them, and knowing to walk away when someone doesn't respect them. Studio Romantic/Shutterstock

Healthy boundaries are directly connected to your well-being and mental health. Boundaries are of many types – physical, emotional, sexual, and so on. They could be flexible or strict, depending on your equation with the people and situations around you.

Healthy boundaries are those that are neither too rigid nor too loose and require work on your part to make sure they are not violated.

Healthy Boundaries

Often, when we’re upset with others, it is because their actions have inadvertently crossed our boundaries. In such situations, we direct the blame outward, on the other person for not respecting our limits.