So, if that challenging family member has a way of being unreliable or sporadic in your life, create a boundary of expectation.
It was a year marked by the genre's biggest artists pushing at the boundaries of public expectation, from Rihanna's sprawling, exploratory and opaque Anti to the frequently drumless drift of Frank Ocean's Blonde to John Legend's troubled, off-kilter Darkness and Light.
Sue Miller has won the Kate Chopin Literary Award for the portrayal of a female character in her novel "The Senator's Wife" who "goes beyond the boundaries of cultural expectations to claim a life on her own terms".
So Twist is trying to expand our understanding of puppetry beyond the boundaries of our expectations, beyond what a thing represents and who's pulling its strings.
An original underdog, it put computers in our hands and made mobile what it is today, but somewhere along the line, pushing the boundaries of our expectations reached a standstill.
Controls are crucial in science: If every black schoolboy in America knows he's supposed to be good at basketball and bad at algebra, and we have no way to measure schoolboys outside the boundaries of such an expectation, how can we gauge their "natural" endowments?
"The quality of the technology and imagery we have developed over the past 12 months is outstanding and really pushes the boundaries of online shopping expectations," said Ball. "We are starting with fashion and see a future for galleries, furniture stores and specialist shops – anything with a unique offer and store experience to share".
What characterized Steve Jobs was that his creative mind kept pushing the boundaries of our technological expectations.
DELTA also incorporates de-identification and encryption algorithms to guard protected health information and control data ownership, and employs flexible alerting mechanisms to trigger notifications via e-mail or through the web interface when an observed event rate exceeds boundaries of risk-adjusted expectations for the event of interest.
You may be beautifully surprised when you push the boundaries of self-imposed expectations.
For example, some shots pioneered a style or defined a genre, while others tested the boundaries of censorship and filmgoer expectations.
