Moments of Permanence - Good people do bad things: demonising Them is not the answer

From: morgan_dhu Date: May 22nd, 2009 07:16 pm (UTC) (Link)

Confronting people that you want to maintain a relationship with is difficult. For me, the most difficult experience of that was dealing with my former partner's father. He held some profoundly racist and sexist opinions, and I simply could not let the things he said go unchallenged, even though it made for some rather difficult family gatherings. At least my then-partner understood and accepted my decision to raise these issues with his father, even though he did not feel comfortable doing it himself.

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