Repetition.

You hope, that after building the courage to advocate for yourself, that you would never have to repeat yourself. You hope that those well crafted and ruminated words would stick.

It turns out, boundaries need to be repeated.

People need reminders about limits.

Family members, with or without malice, forget about your needs.

Because there is an assembly line working, because there is a river of pressure advocating for the family system to work the way it always has.

Expect that setting boundaries will include repeating yourself.

Journal Prompt: Repetition feels like…