Understanding The 10 Laws Of Boundaries & How To Apply Them In Your Relationship

Paige Shaw
13 min readMar 9, 2024

Having trouble with boundaries in your relationship? Perhaps these 10 Laws will help

When it comes to relationships, many dynamics go into producing and maintaining a healthy relationship, whether romantic or platonic. One issue that is important to stabilizing such a relationship is boundaries. If boundaries are not established at the beginning of a relationship or start to diminish, the relationship follows suit and starts to fall apart. Relationships only progress with having boundaries.

Boundaries are essential for a relationship. When we look up boundaries in the dictionary, it means a line or area that marks the limit of an area. Someone can express boundaries in many ways, but they are necessary to create a safe and secure environment. If we apply this same concept to relationships, boundaries would be more like something that shows the beginning and end of something in relationships. If I know where boundaries are in a relationship, I also know who owns feelings, attitudes, and behaviors. I know to whom they belong, and if there’s a problem with one of those, I know to whom the problem belongs.

All parties in a relationship are responsible for their feelings, attitudes, behaviors, choices, limits, desires, thoughts, values, talents, and love. These…

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Paige Shaw

Paige Shaw is a Minister, Self-Love Teacher, and the founder of Bounce Back Motivation