My spouse and I both work in social justice but in very different contexts - they work with policy and I do direct service - and we're starting to judge each other's work as either too removed from real impact or too small-scale to matter. It's creating distance between us when we used to feel like we were on the same team.
More people experience this than they realize.
Partners who share values can become estranged when they develop different theories of change that implicitly critique each other's choices.
“Where Are You with Converting — gaining a new identity?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.