My spouse and I are both involved in activism in our city but we're finding ourselves on different sides of some tactical questions about protest and civil disobedience, and it's creating this weird distance between us where we can't talk about the work that matters most to us. We've never disagreed about politics before and I don't know how to bridge this without one of us giving up something important.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who assumed their political alignment was complete are discovering meaningful differences in how they want to act on shared values, creating distance in their most intimate relationship.
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