louise on the left (coast)

I doubt I'm alone with this situation. Those you consider your nearest and dearest are suddenly on the other side of the political fence,  and you both find yourselves passionately disagreeing about the future.  What do you do next? Well, I haven't known what to do, lately, since the world has warped and changed so dramatically in the past several years, or so it has been hard to find the way to keep close ties safe from harm. People and their opinions have become inflamed,  but what do you do when, say, your female friends, the same women who've stood by you during personal ups and downs, through thick and thin, suddenly state they're not on the same political team as you are? Well, I snapped and retreated into my own shell.  And I'm not proud of that. But, this really is new territory for me, because in the past, it didn't matter.  I accepted and actually welcomed alternative friends. But, lately -- I changed.   I got really upset and emotional over politics.