210: I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It can feel a bit overwhelming to discuss politics with a significant other, friends or family in today's politically charged world. Unfortunately, with the 2020 presidential election looming, the political divide in media and culture will likely be more apparent than ever. Listen to today's show to learn how to constructively talk politics and love someone with different political beliefs. In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: Hear the real life story of a successful long term marriage between two individuals on the opposite ends of the political spectrum Communication tools for talking about politics with your partner, friends and family Why it's OK to disagree with your partner politically Deciding if political differences are too hard to overcome in a relationship And much more! Jeanne Safer, Ph.D., a psychotherapist in New York City, is the author of The Golden Condom, Beyond Motherhood, The Normal One, and several other books. 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 is the host of the I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics podcast. Full show notes and episode links at: http://idopodcast.com/210 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Eyeconic: Where you can shop name brand glasses, contacts and sunglasses for the best possible price. Get free shipping and returns, price matching and a complimentary frame adjustment by visiting eyeconic.com/ido. Use the code IDO to get 10% off your entire order. Eyeconic is looking out for your eyes! Spark My Relationship Course: For a limited time, get access to our bonus, Mastering Money Talk In Your Marriage! Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! - Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. Hey Love Tribe!
0:30.0	What's up guys?
0:31.0	Thank you for tuning in. We hope you're having a wonderful summer day wherever you're at. We are actually recording this on July 4th
0:40.6	celebrating in Costa Rica, but this is not going out for the next couple months, so...
0:45.0	So happy, late 4th July.
0:48.0	Or Halloween by this time.
0:51.0	No, not that long.
0:52.0	Today we have a great show for you guys where we welcome
0:56.4	Dr. Jeannie Safer and she is a psychotherapist in New York City and author of several books including her latest I love you but I
1:06.8	hate your politics and that's what we dig into on today's show.
1:10.8	Yeah what a timely time. Is that a thing?
1:17.0	A timely topic? There we go. Timely topic to discuss right now because politics is kind of taboo in a lot of relationships
1:26.0	and friendships and friendships and sometimes the conversations and the dialogues can be
1:31.6	beneficial and you can learn a lot and other times they can end in screaming yelling matches.
1:37.0	Yeah, and so Dr Safer gives us a tool to have those conversations because we should be having those conversations in the right way.
1:45.0	She has a unique story with her marriage where she's
1:50.0	she's liberal very liberal and is married to a guy who's super conservative and writer for the National Review and she talks about her wedding, like the largest conservative media personalities of the time were at her wedding and she's got like this liberal side of her family and then her husband was super conservative so she has a lot of
2:16.3	personal experience with this and and really gives that back story so if you want to hear that it's definitely interesting and then about
2:24.9	18, 17, 18 minutes in to the interview she goes into the specific tools that you can
2:32.4	apply to your relationships to talk about politics.
2:36.0	So as always, we appreciate you guys for listening and living us the five-star reviews.
2:42.0	Please check out our website for all of our free resources, our 14-day
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