Setting Boundaries in High Conflict: Your Questions About Difficult Relationships

S8E3 - Setting Boundaries in High Conflict: Your Questions About Difficult Relationships

Published: September 25, 2025

Duration: 35:17

In this our next listener’s questions episode, High Conflict Institute co-founders Megan Hunter and Bill Eddy address three complex scenarios involving challenging relationship dynamics, boundary setting, and family conflicts.

Mike seeks advice about an ex-girlfriend who refuses to leave his home despite receiving money to do so, using suicide threats as leverage. The hosts discuss implementing their new SLIC method (Setting Limits, Imposing Consequences) and the importance of following through with consequences while having appropriate support systems in place. They emphasize that enabling behavior rarely leads to positive change.

Leonard from Sweden asks about co...