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

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, spouses and siblings to fracture. The tricky question is raised how to navigate these conversations and find a way to live peacefully with loved ones whose politics you 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 divides in society grow increasingly stark.