Hi, it's Lacey Healy.

When members of Congress and even the vice president are sworn into office, they say an oath,

to protect the country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

But what does a domestic enemy look like?

January 6, it was coming from the top.

Some of them are bad people, but most of them are just normal people.

Because if we weren't all stressed out enough.

This season on Things That Go Boom, we're turning our eyes on the U.S., how violence starts, how it stops, and how we stop it before it starts.

A new season of Things That Go Boom is available now, wherever you get your podcasts.

I don't love conflict, especially over minor things.

All things being equal, I'm usually happy to go along with a friend's choice of restaurant rather than arguing for a place I like better.

But when a disagreement is over something more substantial and the person I disagree with is somebody I really care about, I have learned that it is usually worth the trouble and even the discomfort to

hash things out. An argument might be about, say, the choice to live in a house or a condo

with my husband now that our kids are grown. But the resolution of that argument is not just

about housing options, it is about taking care of our relationship. From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. If you spend much

time on social media, you may start to wonder if my way of looking at this is hopelessly outdated.

There seem to be many, many people plagued by toxic friends and family. They are eager to

jettison from their lives, sometimes for infractions as minor

as like missing a birthday dinner or regularly leaving your house a mess. I get that these things

can be deeply frustrating, even hurtful, and I get that truly bad people are out there who might

threaten our well-being. But if we have multiple people in our lives who we've deemed unworthy

of our time and energy and even our company, because being with them sometimes feels less than amazing, is it possible? The problem is us.

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