Workplace and professional settings About 1 minuteSkill: Naming a boundaryBuild confidence
The colleague who keeps getting too personal
A colleague keeps crossing into personal territory and doesn't pause for your short answers.
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The setup
A colleague keeps crossing into personal territory — questions about your relationship, your weekend, comments on how you look, questions that don't pause when you give short answers. You've been deflecting. The deflecting is starting to feel like its own second job.
What changed?