It sounds like you will have to be explicit at setting boundaries
Sign language: the person you really need to be kind to is not someone who seems intent on ignoring your wishes, but to yourself.Sign language: the person you really need to be kind to is not someone who seems intent on ignoring your wishes, but to yourself.advanced
. My beloved husband of many years died a few years ago. The children and grandchildren have been a huge comfort. I am stillBefore I knew what was happening I found myself almost immediately swept into an affair. At first it was a bit romantic and made me feel desirable again. But, oh dear, I am afraid the desire wore off fast when I discovered
how I feel. I don’t want to be horrid, because part of me feels that for him this is possibly his last hurrah.I think you may be more – rather than less – likely to experience this problem at 80 rather than at 20 or 30, because if you were younger you would have grown up at a different time and would know that it is not OK for someone to carry on pestering you after you have told them to desist.
If people have a good sense of where your boundaries are and do their best not to cross them, there is little need to define yourself by explicitly saying what you will and won’t tolerate. It’s therefore possible you might not have had much practice in boundary-setting. However, your friend is not following this social code and so you will have to be explicit about your boundary.
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