You have probably heard the story of the frog and boiling water. If you put a frog into a pot of hot water it will jump out immediately. If, however, you place it into a pot of cold water then start heating, it will not realize that the temperature is rising until it is too late.
This is what happens when you let small divergences from you values occur. Perhaps it's because you want to impress. Maybe you just want to get confirmed, and then you will get back to the straight and narrow. Maybe you tell yourself, 'just this once'. Before you know it, it becomes twice, five times, all the time. And then you are hooked and you cannot extricate yourself.
The same happens in terms of pressure. You start taking on additional tasks to be nice. Then people begin assuming it's your responsibility. Before you know it you have more than you can bite, and if you still do not manage that, you reach breaking point and there's no telling what will happen to you or others.
What's your breaking point? Knowing the answer to this question means knowing how your mind and body react to stress or pressure, or even coercion, and make you better able to identify the warning signs. This was you can avoid taking on too much before things get out of hand, or before you are in too deep to get out. Unless yor personal boundaries are so porous that you cannot stop anything or anyone getting in!
