Elections are temporary. Family is forever. Here's how to keep politics from driving you apart
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To transform civil war to civil dialogue with loved ones and friends, we need to develop behaviors that alter our natural biological propensity for defensiveness.
Warren Farrell, Ph.D., is author of "Role Mate to Soul Mate," which explains Civil War to Civil Dialogue. His Ph.D. is from NYU.
This is not new. In the Civil War, it was not uncommon for a brother to fight his own brother. Our Founding Fathers often viciously disagreed. But they created institutional checks and balances to compensate for what they could not modify personally: our inability to hear opposing perspectives without becoming defensive.
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