For a long time, I believed that saying no required explanation. I softened refusals, justified decisions, and tried to manage how others felt about my boundaries. I thought this was maturity. It wasn’t.
What I eventually noticed was that the more I explained my no, the less final it became. Conversations reopened. Negotiations followed. My boundaries bl…
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