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When couples find themselves on opposite sides of community issues

My spouse and I are both involved in our kids' school PTA, but we keep finding ourselves on opposite sides of heated debates about curriculum and school policies, and it's starting to affect our relationship at home. We can't seem to separate our political differences from our shared goal of wanting what's best for our kids and their school.

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Two people who share core values discover that their approaches to protecting those values create conflict in both public and private spaces.

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