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Boundaries don’t mean someone stopped loving you. They mean they reached the limit of what their heart could carry without losing peace, identity, or dignity. When a boundary is set in love, it isn’t punishment. It is the only way a relationship can survive without collapsing on one person’s emotional spine.

Letting go isn’t the hard part.

Staying gone is.

The guilt hits.

The silence hits.

The part of you that used to over-explain and over-give starts panicking.

But here’s what I’m learning:

Feeling guilty doesn’t mean you’re wrong.

It means you’re healing.

You’re not abandoning anyone.

You’re just finally refusing to abandon yourself.

You are allowed to disappoint people who expect unlimited access to you.

Let go.

Rise up.

Become.

Sometimes the strongest boundary you will ever set is the one that requires distance. Not because you stopped caring, but because you finally started caring about yourself too. Protecting your peace doesn’t make you mean. It means you refuse to betray yourself to keep a relationship alive. You can love someone and still choose not to let them hurt you anymore. Healing isn’t always soft. Sometimes it looks like walking away.