This week, a listener asks, “Why does my partner hate every way that I am different from them?”  Difference is what makes us human, and how we respond to difference is such an integral part of the human experience.  We experience it in our most intimate relationships–with our partners or between siblings, for example.  But it’s also at the forefront of our political climate and policy-making, culture clashes, religious wars, racism, sexism, you name it.  There is a desire for ease and harmony in the question, but also an undercurrent of grandiosity, loneliness and disconnection.  Listen in as Rebecca, Vickey and Jules tap into the many facets of this question, from the deep grief underneath to infant/mother connection to even the humor in the magical thinking.

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