Are We Using Boundaries to Avoid Intimacy?

Can healthy boundaries ever become a way of avoiding intimacy?

In this episode of Modern Relationships, I explore the difference between protecting our limits and protecting ourselves from the ordinary discomfort of being close to another person.

We look at why boundaries are not the same as avoiding conflict, how “protecting my peace” can sometimes become withdrawal, why intimacy requires some willingness to be affected by another person, and what can happen when self-protection slowly becomes emotional distance.

A reflective episode about boundaries, vulnerability, emotional intimacy, relationship communication and the difference between feeling safe and becoming unreachable.