Sacred Boundaries

“Real love adores boundaries, because it is never loving to enable an abuser to violate another human being, nor is it loving to allow oneself to be repetitively abused or exploited.

This is big love, because it may not feel loving to the one you’re saying no to, but it is love nonetheless, a love big enough to stand up to a bullying abuser and say “Brother, sister, beloved, I love you too much to let you get away with something so unkind, and I love myself too much to ignore the soul violence of what you’re doing.” Lissa Rankin, MD