Three takeaways
- Their emotion may be deciding for you before your own capacity is considered.
- Treating disappointment as proof that your boundary is harmful.
- Agreeing now and resenting the commitment later.
- Pause before answering and say, “Let me check what I can realistically do.”
Video transcript
You said: I said yes because they sounded disappointed. Their emotion may be deciding for you before your own capacity is considered. Treating disappointment as proof that your boundary is harmful. Try this: Pause before answering and say, “Let me check what I can realistically do.”
