"Advice for handling emotional 'triggers,' building communication skills, fostering empathy, and changing reactive habits, including sample scripts. Addresses vulnerability, security, sexuality, self-inquiry, and healing. Authors are long-time relationship therapists"--

"Many people need help navigating conversational minefields such as politics and religion--without getting blown up. Mingling with the Enemy is a vital guide for "surviving" contentious arguments, promoting civil discourse, and finding common ground in any social setting--from cocktail parties to PTA meetings. With this go-to guide, readers will learn how to successfully intermingle, listen, and diffuse heated arguments or disagreements while remaining...