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Scenario

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.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

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

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Code-switching and double consciousness?”

Peri

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