So according to me, Circling is about understanding psychology / relationships, and boundaries come up because they’re both an important part of the source material and they’re related to how you look at the source material. The primary mechanism is ‘understanding’ boundaries instead of ‘lowering’ them, tho; like, often you end up in situations where you look at your boundaries and go “yep, that’s definitely helpful and where it should be” or you notice the way that you had been forcing yourself to behave a particular way and that was self-harming because you were ignoring one of your own boundaries.
But also I think I run into this alternative impression a lot, and so something is off about how I or others are communicating about it. I’d be interested in hearing why it seems like Circling would push towards ‘letting betrayal slide’ or ‘lowering boundaries’ or similar things.
FYI this felt like a fairly buried lede to me. This feels like the important crux of the conversation.
FYI this felt like a fairly buried lede to me. This feels like the important crux of the conversation.