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When partners have fundamentally different approaches to social change

My romantic partner and I are both activists but we disagree about tactics - I believe in working within existing systems for change and they think that's just maintaining oppression with extra steps. It's affecting how we see each other and I don't know how to bridge this gap without one of us compromising our core beliefs.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Intimate relationships can fracture when people who share values choose incompatible methods for living those values.

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