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Fighting America's Second Civil War
"We don't talk anymore. My mother is here but gone."
This simple confession, made to me yesterday by a 55-year-old mother of three from Wisconsin about her estranged mother, is one I hear or read dozens of times a day in some form or another, doing the work I do.
In the hundreds of conversations I have with people each week while leading them through the minefields of relational turbulence, one pervasive and enduring truth rises up: the reality of the great pulling away happening right now in America.
We are at the threshold of our collective tolerance for interpersonal conflict and nearing a…
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