I wrote this book because young adults are making relational decisions with adult consequences, often without anyone ever teaching them how access, consent, conflict, privacy, and power actually work. We tell people to choose good friends, date wisely, honor family, and avoid toxic relationships, but we do not always give them language for what those instructions mean in real life.
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Life Prep Series · Volume 5 of 7 · Catalog 43036
Relationships and Boundaries
Surviving the Social Media Age
A practical Christian guide that helps young adults build connection without surrendering dignity, judgment, consent, privacy, responsibility, faith, or safety.
Bourne Again Living Library · Catalog 43036
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A practical Christian guide that helps young adults build connection without surrendering dignity, judgment, consent, privacy, responsibility, faith, or safety. It brings usable language and plans to friendship, dating, family expectations, church relationships, work, digital life, conflict, repair, and healthy boundaries.
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- How is this book different from advice that simply says to cut off toxic people?
- You say love and access are not the same. What do you mean?
- How do you define a boundary?
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Addresses limits and relational repair without confusing compassion with access, forgiveness with trust, or reconciliation with unsafe reunion.
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