• 3 weeks ago
Yale psychiatrist urges viewers to shun Trump-voting family members over holidays. Source: MSNBC
Transcript
00:00I think just a societal norm that if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time.
00:07And I think the answer is absolutely not. So if you are going into a situation where you have
00:12family members, where you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you,
00:19like what you said, against your livelihood, and it's completely fine to not be around those people
00:26and to tell them why. To say, I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went
00:32against my very livelihood and I'm not going to be around you this holiday. I need to take some
00:36space for me. And I actually talked to adults as well as advising parents for children. I mean,
00:44I don't think that you should force children. I don't think you should force adults to be
00:48around people just because they're your family. I think there is a level of need to establish
00:54boundaries. And if you feel like you need to establish boundaries with people,
00:58whether they're your family or not.

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