Gemini

When someone keeps pushing against a line you have drawn, they are not confused about where it is. The testing is the message, and the message is that they believe your boundary exists only as long as it remains convenient for them to respect it. You have been responding to the surface conversation while the real negotiation happens in the pauses, in what gets asked twice, in the small ways they step closer each time you step back. The boundary that holds is not the one you explain most carefully but the one you stop explaining at all.