When it comes to personal boundaries, if an individual has never experienced attuned parents respecting theirs during a time when they were still feeling out their own needs and edges, they inherently carry cynicism and hesitation towards the validity and assertion of such in their interpersonal relationships.
I wonder if all the understanding, reassurance and compassion in the world is enough to make a person like that dare to trust a boundary again.
I suspect it may have been imprinted so deeply it cannot be changed, only trascended through serious introspection and a conscious view of relating to peers.
Just a guess of mine, probably a long shot... I truly wonder though.
This is a nervous system adaptation, not an inherent character flaw.
I wonder if all the understanding, reassurance and compassion in the world is enough to make a person like that dare to trust a boundary again.
I suspect it may have been imprinted so deeply it cannot be changed, only trascended through serious introspection and a conscious view of relating to peers.
Just a guess of mine, probably a long shot... I truly wonder though.