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When couples discover different appetites for justice work and risk

My romantic partner and I are both involved in social justice work but we're realizing we have different comfort levels with risk and confrontation, and it's affecting not just our activism but how we see each other's character.

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Disagreement about tactics becomes entangled with judgment about values, threatening both the relationship and each person's sense of moral coherence.

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