5 Signs You Need Stronger Emotional Boundaries

Are you being taken advantage of?

Caring for others is a noble trait, and often times we garner a sense of significance or contribution from it.

While it is important to be a positive influence in the lives of others, many of us fail to set boundaries for what we’ll accept in return and subsequently get taken advantage of or lose sight of our identity in the process. There is a difference between giving of yourself, and sacrificing yourself.

Below are a few signs that you’ve been prioritizing others for so long that it’s time to remember you matter, too.

1. You’ve lost sight of what your true identity is.

Priorities in life add up quickly. Kids, career, relationships, all of the things that make us who we are. Each of these aspects require our energy and attention, sometimes to an overwhelming extent.

What happens too often is that they’ll absorb so much of our time and attention that every single decision we make is for the sake of someone else. We are always working to make someone else happy, to keep the boss off of our back, to make sure we are pleasing our significant other — and one day we wake up and forget who we even were as an individual outside of all of this.