"I love every experience we have together."

My boundaries are based in LOVE.
Love for myself.
Love for the other.
Love for the circumstances of my life.

Boundaries are *points of connection.* They're the squishy lovey place that we get to experience each other.

So when I'm setting boundaries with my loved ones, I'm setting them based on what will make me say, "DAMN I love EVERY experience we have together."

This can't happen without my true honoring of and respect for the other. No matter what anyone says, it is NOT fun or loving to disrespect a loved one under any circumstance. It doesn't feel good to be that person, say nothing of what it feels like to receive.

If I choose to be in relationship with another, I choose to accept them for who they are. When I accept them for who they are, I don't see flaws to criticize, I see limitations *of the connection, not the person* that we can collaborate to accommodate, to serve ourselves, each other, and our connection.

This is intimacy, facilitated and created through boundaries.