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In the summer of 1999, my sweet wife (of just a few days) helped me pack up all our possessions into a few moving boxes and transition them into our first house. While I acquiesced most of the interior planning to Carrie, I staked my claim in the unfinished basement. However, where I had envisioned large screen TVs, ping-pong tables, and indoor golf studios, our friends and family envisioned free, climate-controlled storage. Within the first year, our spacious basement was filled with clutter from people that I didn\u2019t have the courage to say \u201cno\u201d to. With all the junk that I had allowed into our home, it didn\u2019t take long for pesky rodents to appear. Anytime the house would settle, or the ice-machine would crackle in the night, my wife and I would wake up in terror. At that point, I knew had I failed in one of the primary leadership responsibilities given to me by God. I had failed to establish healthy boundaries. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":31930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[3319,736,312,897,1116,898],"class_list":["post-31928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-boundaries","tag-leaders","tag-leadership","tag-marriage-family","tag-marriage-and-family","tag-men-husbands","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-14.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31931,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31928\/revisions\/31931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}