Can you accept your loved one’s political choices?

[bibliophile20]

On the original topic, I’ve actually had this exact issue already as a thread on the BBS previously:

Integrity Vs. Friendship: Venting

Being straight up blunt here, I’m starting this topic as a means of venting; if others want to chime in with similar stories, I think that that would be great. But I’m writing this because it’s better than picking up the phone and reopening wounds. Short version: I’m wondering how many of us have lost friends and good relationships of all kinds because people on any end of the political spectrum find themselves unable to avoid being hyper-sensitive. I had a very good friend, let’s call him Ch…

I lost a friend because he couldn’t accept my political choices, and made that emphatically clear with vile rhetoric.