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[quote=Anonymous]OP says "I finally set a boundary".

OP, when you make a substantial change is what you want from somebody else, it's best to have a strategy for how you are going to communicate that and also when you are going to communicate that.

Let's say there are things you have always done at work and unbeknownst to you it makes a coworker or a boss unhappy, but they haven't ever said anything. And one day, right as you are doing it or about to do it, they bring it up abruptly. You are likely to feel at least a little bit attacked.

But now, perhaps, you can pull off a bit of a reset with MIL. At the same time, try not to dwell on it.

Of course, the other possibility (happens all the time with humans) is that in the long run nothing will change. Then my advice would be to try to change how you react to what they're going to do anyway. As someone who isn't great about taking the initiative to change a situation, I have quite a bit of practice inn deciding something I have found annoying is no longer going to bother me. So that is also an option. [/quote]

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