#428: How to Keep Politics From Destroying Your Relationships
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Are political differences with people you love threatening to tear your relationships apart? You’re definitely not alone! Today, we’re diving deep into the delicate dance of keeping relationships healthy across political divides.
In this episode, I’m sharing the strategies to help you navigate tricky conversations with grace, keep your cool, and protect your own happiness along the way. By the end, you’ll know exactly how to preserve the connections you care about most, even when politics threaten to tear you apart. Stick around to the end—I’ve got some free resources to help you practice these skills and share them with your loved ones. Let’s jump in!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Are Political Differences Threatening Your Relationships?
04:22 - Assess the Importance of Each Relationship
07:32 - Radical Acceptance (It's Tough, But Worth It!)
11:12 - Emotional Regulation - How to Stay Cool
16:49 - Focus on the Positives (Yes, Really!)
23:09 - Set & Maintain Healthy Boundaries
32:18 - Advanced Skills: Radical Curiosity and Empathy
39:06 - Free Resources + Final Thoughts
If you loved this episode, don’t miss the next video in this series! Let’s keep building those relationship skills.
P.S. Need a little more support? Check out my free Communication That Connects 2-Part Video Series. Also, join me Thursday at 12 pm MT for a live session right here on YouTube on this very topic, how to navigate political differences in relationships. You can even submit an anonymous question right here.
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| 0:00.0 | The path to having a great, high quality, respectful, loving relationship is not the absence of unsolvable problems. |
| 0:19.0 | It is the ability to focus on the really good parts of |
| 0:25.6 | that relationship. |
| 0:26.6 | And your force means nothing. |
| 0:43.6 | You love them. |
| 0:45.3 | Your friend, your partner, your family member, |
| 0:48.2 | but every time you talk, especially lately, |
| 0:52.0 | it feels like you're staring across a chasm so wide that it feels impossible |
| 0:58.0 | to bridge. |
| 1:00.0 | Their political beliefs, their worldview, feels so incompatible with yours that it is hard to connect |
| 1:07.0 | on any level. |
| 1:09.0 | And yet, of course, you still care about them. |
| 1:12.4 | You want this relationship to work. |
| 1:14.8 | But with all these differences, you're feeling lost, frustrated, hopeless right now even, |
| 1:21.2 | and you are not alone. |
| 1:23.0 | A lot of people are feeling the same way and you're in the right place. |
| 1:28.3 | Because on today's episode of love, happiness, and success, we're talking about how to |
| 1:34.0 | navigate these political differences in your closest relationships. |
| 1:38.4 | And by the end of this podcast, you will have a clear process to help you, first of all, assess the importance of |
| 1:47.2 | a relationship, create some new expectations, and also maintain healthy boundaries, all while |
| 1:54.9 | preserving your emotional well-being and the best parts of this relationship. Be sure to stick around because at the very |
| 2:04.1 | end of this episode, I am dropping a bunch of free resources that you can use to help yourself, |
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