I think I messed up with boundaries. Now I need to fix it...

[Guest guest]

My fada and mom got unlimited texting. They text me constantly and expect a

response immediately, even late at night when I could be asleep. I thought this

was a better option than having to call them daily, because I can choose to have

a longer time lapse between texts and not respond to certain things, which would

be more difficult in a phone call.

Suddenly, I find myself texting them more than I text my friends and I don't

even remember how it all started. I'm getting sucked in and thinking " it's not

so bad to talk to them all the time. " Even though things are okay now, I know

there will be a point when they fall apart again, and I do NOT want to be

constantly contacted about how I screwed up etc. Overall, I want to get out of

slipping into enmeshment with them and I feel terrible for letting myself slip

into these patterns of communication again when I was doing so well setting

limits before.

Any advice on what to tell them? How to set a limit when I clearly haven't been

following any limits for a while? This all takes too much energy...