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I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics

How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous Partisan World

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Do you thrust unsolicited partisan articles upon your spouse? Are you convinced that you can change your coworker's mind, if you could only argue forcefully enough? Have you gone from befriending to "defriending" the people once closest to you? Don't give up hope; Dr. Jeanne Safer is here to help.
Since the election of Donald J. Trump, political disagreements have been ravaging our personal relationships like never before. This already widespread phenomenon will continue to grow unless we learn to fight it.
From friends to relatives to lovers, no relationship is immune to this crisis. I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics draws from interviews with every type of politically mixed couple, as well as Dr. Safer's own experiences as a die-hard liberal happily married to a stalwart conservative. The result is a practical guide to maintaining respect and intimacy in our increasingly divided world.

I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics
is sure to educate and entertain anyone who has felt the strain of ideological differences in their personal life. No matter which side of the fence you're on, Dr. Safer offers frank, practical advice for salvaging and strengthening your bonds with your loved ones. This audiobook is required listening for any politically minded friend, relative, or significant other in the Trump era.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      The author-narrator, a psychoanalyst with a podcast that focuses on politics and relationships, conveys the certitude and altruism often heard from mental health professionals. Safer also sounds intelligent and relaxed, creating a performance that delivers her analysis and recommendations with clarity and grace. The message here is about whether or not to accept in a loved one the politics and politicians you can't tolerate, and many of the vignettes she shares involve the current president, Donald Trump. But the author cleverly avoids judging politicians or their positions, so her advice will not help win arguments. What she does show is how often we unnecessarily instigate and perpetuate such arguments, or fail to put others' political views in the context of their values, the way they live their lives, or their kindness and loyalty toward us. T.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 29, 2019
      Psychotherapist and podcaster Safer (The Golden Condom) offers empathetic and sanity-saving advice on navigating the mine fields of political conversation. Safer, a liberal Democrat married to a conservative Republican, shares plenty of hard-won tips from her own life, notably not raising one’s voice, not discussing politics under the influence of alcohol, and, perhaps most apropos in the age of Facebook, not sending a partner unsolicited partisan articles or links on contentious topics. Cautionary tales of relationships gone awry are sprinkled throughout, including a story about female best friends who nearly ended their longtime friendship over a Trump-Hillary debate, and screaming fights between a liberal mother and her conservative teenage son. Safer encourages readers to examine their own motivations for discussions, and realize that most political fights in intimate relationships are not about politics but about a compulsion to change dissimilar views to align with one’s own. She also advises readers to use humor to defuse hostility and to work to understand the viewpoints of others. This insightful, well-reasoned book will help readers negotiate the political differences in their relationships with the people they love most. (June)Correction: The author's last name was misstated in an earlier version of this review.

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