• We’ve neglected to define our personal boundaries. • Our own destructive patterns get in the way. • We’ve lost sight of our priorities. • We don’t understand our identity—our place within the family of God. In short, the problem isn’t that we have difficult people in our lives, but that we respond to them inappropriately, almost always because they push our emotional buttons. Knowing what a boundary is and is not may seem like basic information, but it’s important