Types of Boundaries
Establishing Boundaries
Healthy Boundaries
Unhealthy Boundaries
Wild Card
100

This term describes the invisible lines that define where one person's feelings and responsibilities end and another's begin.

What are personal boundaries?

100

This is the first step in establishing boundaries, involving understanding your own needs and limits.

What is self-awareness?

100

This boundary helps partners maintain their own interests and friendships outside the relationship.

What is maintaining independence?

100

This unhealthy behavior involves dismissing or belittling a partner's feelings and opinions.

What is emotional invalidation?

100

The main character, Elle Woods, learns to stop chasing validation from an ex boyfriend by redirecting her focus on her own goals. She does this by setting firm, healthy boundaries that prioritizes her own worth.

What is Legally Blonde?

200

Setting this type of boundary in a relationship helps maintain respect and trust by clearly communicating your limits.

What are emotional boundaries?

200

This communication skill is essential for clearly expressing your boundaries to others.

What is assertiveness?

200

This is the key to resolving boundary violations in a healthy relationship.

What is conflict resolution?

200

This boundary issue arises when partners do not communicate their needs or limits clearly.

What is poor communication?

200

Detective Carter firmly sets physical and operational limits by explicitly instructing Inspector Lee never to touch his personal car radio.

What is Rush Hour?

300

This boundary involves deciding how much time and energy you devote to others versus yourself.

What are time boundaries?

300

This type of boundary involves deciding what topics or behaviors are acceptable in conversations.

What are conversational boundaries?

300

This boundary involves agreeing on acceptable behaviors regarding social media and digital communication.

What are digital boundaries?

300

This boundary violation happens when trust is broken through dishonesty or secrecy.

What is breach of trust?

300

A coworker replies-all to a massive thread, writing a 500-word essay about why they cannot attend an optional 15-minute sync, while cc'ing your VP. Roleplay how to set a boundary with this coworker. 

Did they set the boundary appropriately?

400

In a healthy relationship, partners agree on these to prevent misunderstandings and maintain mutual respect.

What are relationship boundaries?

400

This is the term for adjusting your boundaries as relationships and circumstances change.

What is boundary flexibility?

400

This boundary prevents one partner from controlling or manipulating the other.

What is autonomy?

400

This unhealthy practice involves using guilt or manipulation to influence a partner's choices.

What is emotional manipulation?

400

Word Scramble:

RPSOOU DIIRG NAD TYAHHLE RUNIBSOEDA

Porous, Rigid, and Healthy Boundaries.

500

Crossing this boundary can lead to feelings of discomfort, resentment, or violation in a relationship.

What is a boundary violation?

500

This emotional response often occurs when someone successfully sets a boundary for the first time.

What is relief or empowerment?

500

This boundary helps partners support each other's emotional well-being without taking on each other's problems.

What is emotional responsibility?

500

This unhealthy boundary is characterized by excessive dependence on a partner for emotional support.

What is emotional enmeshment?

500

In quantum physics, this famous thought experiment—where a theoretical feline is both alive and dead—illustrates the blurry boundary and measurement problem between quantum mechanics and classical reality.

What is Schrödinger's cat?