Tag: boundary circumvention

Boundary Circumvention is the bypassing, weakening, reframing, or indirect violation of a person’s stated or implied limits without openly confronting the boundary itself. Within the Captivity Lens, this may occur through intermediaries, guilt, urgency, reinterpretation, loopholes, relational pressure, spiritual or clinical authority, repeated testing, or alternative routes of access after a limit has been established.

Boundary circumvention matters because the boundary may appear to remain technically intact while its protective function is being eroded. The issue is not only whether a boundary was explicitly broken, but whether another person or system found ways to preserve access, control, influence, or extraction despite the survivor’s attempt to differentiate.

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