I was in class earlier today and my teacher was talking about dancing with another man was pm a cruise, and she was in a relationship at that point. One of her students commented and said that he would be "dumb tight" if another man was teaching his girl to dance. My teacher then proceeded to talk about jealousy and trust in relationships and another student chimed in and added "What if you start violating boundaries in your relationship?". And then another student next him said she didn't believe in crossing boundaries.

So my question for you ATRLers is:

Do boundaries exist in a relationship? Or is it just a made up concept that is holding back our "progressive" society?

Every relationship is different. You'd be surprised at how many relationships succeed because both of the persons involved just don't care about "boundaries" but various boundaries do exist in various relationships. Also, if you know someone is in a relationship, it's your job as a decent human being to respect it, no matter if you know or don't know what boundaries that relationship has or not. If a person in a relationship comes onto you, do you, as a single person, have boundaries?

It all just comes down to if your relationship has boundaries you both set with eachother. Society has nothing to do with what you both choose.

Boundaries do and, in my opinion, should exist in relationships, but ultimately every relationship is different and it's up to those involved to define where those boundaries are and what is/isn't okay in terms of crossing those boundaries.

What two people in a relationship choose to define as their boundaries is up to them. It is important that people find someone who has similar values for a successful relationship. Not every couple will have the same values as the next because everyone isn't meant to date everyone

Of course. Everyone has some boundaries.

This.

Some boundaries, I don't think dancing with someone is wrong.

Depends on what kind of dancing