What are appropriate interpersonal boundaries when it comes to communication and relationships? This would be a great askhubski. Many angles and many opinions. For instance I have been becoming friends with a really great woman recently. I say "becoming" because we both can be a little reserved and don't like to talk about details of personal life stories with people until after we have begun to know them. It has been interesting to watch how our boundaries have begun to drop between each other. Two weeks ago we commiserated about our unhappy familial relationships, for instance, something which two months ago I think we would have decided to keep to ourselves a little bit more.

I recently found myself telling her something that, as I said it, I thought, "are we at that point in our friendship that I am comfortable divulging this?" I glossed over the details and she didn't focus on the vulnerability I'd exposed (nor seemed to judge me for it). It is interesting to experience the comfort zone progression.