Boundaries Come Before Empathy or Understanding
from JSWonders Hosted by Jon Sorensen, LMFT
I talk through why the current social emphasis on empathy actually has confused and distracted my folks, especially young people, allowing them to actually leverage ideas of empathy or understanding to violate boundaries under the guise of asking for understanding, asking for closure, or just expressing hurt feelings in order to reengage with someone who set a boundary ending an interaction.
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