I love you, but I hate your Politics: How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous Partisan World

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Fraught dinner conversations about Brexit are all too familiar for many of us. With unfolding events dominating the news channels, it's a delicate topic which is near impossible to avoid, and has caused relationships between parents and children and spouses and siblings alike to fracture. Many of us find ourselves asking how can we navigate these conversations and find a way to live peacefully with loved ones whose politics we find fundamentally objectionable

Psychotherapist and die-hard liberal Jeanne Safer has personal experience of successfully solving this conundrum through her happy marriage to stalwart conservative Richard Brookhiser. Here, she combines her own expertise with interviews with other mixed-politics couples, offering frank advice and setting out a practical strategy for salvaging and strengthening your relationships. Part relationship guide, part anthropological study, this book is an invaluable and entertaining tool for anyone who has felt they are walking on eggshells as divisions in society grow increasingly stark.

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Jeanne Safer PhD, a psychotherapist living in New York, is the author of The Golden Condom, Cain's Legacy, and Beyond Motherhood. Dr Safer has appeared on The Daily Show and Good Morning America as well as numerous NPR broadcasts. Her work has been the subject of articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She blogs for HuffPost and Psychology Today, and is the host of the I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics podcast.