Madelaine Petsch

Yeah.

I feel very blessed that it went positively because it could have also like in my brain because I'm a catastrophizer because I had to be growing up.

I was prepared for the worst case scenario.

Yeah.

I'm sure most women probably have that experience as well.

So just like layers of

It's definitely not easy.

I think especially people my age don't, they're starting to learn boundaries, but it feels like it's not a very common thing for friendships or anything otherwise.

So it's really mostly about like honest communication for me.

I'd rather someone not beat around the bush.

I just need like straight, direct, honest communication.

So for a time when I moved away from my parents' house, I was like, nobody gets to call me.

i'll call you if i want to chat and if you don't pick up that's fine but like no one gets access to me right now i need to like focus on myself and not bring this to my new life wow so that was for like about two years and now there's kind of like a policy with both my mom and my dad where they'll text me when they're thinking about me and then i call when i have time to talk my brother and i have actually really great relationship now where we can talk on the phone and that's really wonderful but i am still boundary with him i mean is he older or younger older okay

And he lives in Washington near my parents.

And so I'm boundaried with him in terms of like, he'll call me and be like, if this is, you know, you need advice.

I don't have space for that in my life right now.

But if you just want to have a conversation, we can do that.

So it's really, again, it's just communication.

It's like, I don't want to be frustrated with my brother.

I'm 31 years old.