NewA healthy person hears a boundary and adjusts. A narcissist hears a boundary and treats it as a challenge: they test it, they push past it, and then they punish you for having put it there at all. That is why survivors so often arrive in therapy having lost the ability to say no to anyone. The work of recovery is largely the work of rebuilding that word. "My Boundaries Are for Narcissists" is not a threat aimed at anyone in particular. It is a statement of self-knowledge: I know where my limits are, I know why they exist, and I know exactly who they were built in response to.
A chain link fence with the message bolted to it in hot pink signage. The metaphor does all the work: this is not a suggestion, it is a barrier, and it was put up for a reason.
Setting limits with a narcissist is not an act of self-care. It is an act of survival, and most survivors had to learn it the hard way before they trusted themselves to hold the line.
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