Boundaries don’t hold themselves. “You have to set, maintain and fight for your boundaries for people to respect them, and for you to gain self-worth.”

Innocent splits the people who cross your lines into two. Some do it without knowing — and that’s on you, for never making the line clear. Others do it knowingly, having chosen not to respect it. Either way, an undefined boundary isn’t really a boundary.

There’s a quieter reward too. Even people who’d never admit it respect the person who defines and enforces their own limits. And you gain something as well: the self-worth that comes from deciding what you’ll protect, and then protecting it.