People with walled boundaries have generally been deeply hurt by others and have erected barriers to prevent being hurt again by others' actions, thoughts and feelings. No boundaries is the opposite extreme from walled ones. A person with no boundaries is unable to prevent unwanted intrusions and may be unaware that it is possible to do so. At the very least, sexual assault and abuse are violations of a person's boundaries. People with healthy boundaries can have them damaged during assaults.
Sexual assaults have repercussions on all levels of a person's boundary system.
It is for this reason that healing from sexual assault and abuse is a slow and painful process. Becoming your own loving parent Talking to yourself with gentleness, humor, love and respect Adapted from a lecture by Pia Mellody, Wickenburg, Arizona 1990. Rape Crisis Center, 1991.