By now you should have read the boundaries introduction and understand the basics of what boundaries are. This page provides a checklist of attributes and behaviors you can think about to understand more about unhealthy boundaries.
Boundaries can be unhealthy by being either too intimate or too distant.
We suggest going down this list twice. First thinking of yourself, and then as it may apply to the person in your life with borderline traits . Signs of Unhealthy Boundaries Accepting food, gifts, touch, or sex that you don't want. Acting on first sexual impulse. Allowing someone to take as much as they can from you.