Because of politics; I’m damn close to losing a friend I’ve know for close to 45 years.
It’s a tough row to hoe.
I lost a best friend of 30 years over the 2000 election. We had never agreed on politics, but he went ballistic saying the victory by Bush was stolen. Oh well, no great loss to lose a liberal friend.
Sometimes it’s possible to draw a boundary and exclude politics from the relationship options in terms of communications.
Sometimes it’s possible to say . . . I love you.
I believe you are deadly wrong about politics. I do not believe you will see that until it is far too late to do anything about it. It grieves me to touch politics between us. I’d like to hold onto you and our relationship. That likely means, we have to quit communicating about politics.
Or, folks can say—I’ll give you 10 pages once a month and read 10 pages from you once amonth. Otherwise, no politics.