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Season 2: People Pleasing and Boundaries — Why They Don’t Hold (Part 8)

04/08/2026 by Kam Su Jin

A woman pauses at her front door, hand on the handle — people pleasing and boundaries recalculating the moment after she said it.

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Why You Can't Stop People Pleasing

People pleasing and boundaries break down after they’re set, not when they’re set. The system that generated the people pleasing keeps running. Here’s why.