Puppy, thank you for responding. One question is I thought I was not supposed to talk about the relationship.
K,
Where in the above did I advocate talking about the relationship? Drawing and enforcing your own boundaries of personal integrity is NOT relationship talk.
There are obviously different views on how to best to go about this. You asked me how to draw a boundary, so that's what I laid out for you. If you want to go the "be his best friend" route, you can do that, but I've personally never seen it work.