Brian Laird on WNYC.

And now a call in to end the show today.

We're going to invite your stories of maintaining functional relationships across political lines.

212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-92. This is about your relationship with friends or relatives or neighbors or

work colleagues with whom you severely disagree about Donald Trump or other politics. Last week,

we heard from listeners having a hard time maintaining some of those relationships.

Today, your advice for those listeners with your stories of functional relationships

across the political divide. How do you manage them? 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-96-692 call or text.

Here's an example of one of the calls that we got last week.

Maybe listeners, you have some advice based on your own functional relationships

across the political divide for this caller, Ted, last week.

I've noticed a shift in a relationship with my siblings.

We're all spread out across the country, but we meet on Zoom every Sunday night.

And so this past week, the four of us that were on the Democratic side were chatting before

the fifth sibling got on the line.

And, you know, it was all about politics and kind of bemoaning what had happened, et cetera.

But, of course, we had to stop immediately as soon as the Republican sibling got on the line.

And not that there wasn't this division before, but, you know, it's just, it feels like it's more pronounced.

So that was poor Ted.

You hear how distressed he was by where his relationship with his sibling stands right now.

Any advice for Ted or just tell your story.

How do you manage your relationships functionally across the political divide? Is it by agreeing to disagree,

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