02/11/2021
The Interdependence Bill of Rights:
The mind your own F-ing business podcast
1. I have the right to be loved. I do not have the right to force someone to love me.
2. I do not owe anyone anything. All of my energy exchanges are voluntary. No one owes me anything.
3. My feelings are my full responsibility. My life and experience is my full responsibility.
4. I have the right to happiness. I do not have the right to make my happiness someone elseโs responsibility. (I have everything in me to find happiness.)
5. I have the right to express my feelings. I do not have the right to dictate othersโ reactions to my feelings.
6. I have the right to my own opinion. I do not have the right to dole out my opinion unsolicited, crossing into someone elseโs space.
7. I have the right to a life free of guilt and obligation. (Read that again.)
8. I do not have the right to use guilt and obligation to impose my will on others.
9. I have the right to define and set boundaries in my relationships specifying what I am willing and not willing to participate in. (Boundaries are defining what I will or will not do and whyโnot telling someone else how to behave.)
10. I do not have to work tirelessly to maintain all of my connections to take responsibility to maintain them.
Iโd now like to share the Interdependence Bill of Rights with you in the hopes that you too remember that you are a powerful being capable of living any life you can imagine.