You don’t have to announce your standards. People figure them out from what you walk away from.

Standards live in your refusals, not your announcements. Anyone can say what they will not put up with, and saying it costs nothing, so it carries almost no information. What people actually read is the moment you leave the group chat, put the controller down, or stop laughing at a joke. That is the part they remember, and it does the explaining for you.

Notice one thing this week you keep tolerating while telling yourself you do not. Leave it once, quietly, without a speech about why. See who adjusts.