Dear LFTP: the vegan-obsessed wife
- Should I stay or go? My wife has become obsessed with veganism and I can't have a conversation with her.
Dear LFTP letter one: a teacher writes that his wife beat diabetes through veganism but has since become purely vegan for animal rights, listening to vegan podcasts on earbuds all day and messaging vegan friends mid-conversation — 'should I stay or should I go?' The hosts push past the binary: join her world first (cook a vegan meal, support the cause), document a few steady examples, then have the frank conversation. Secular's answer — tap her shoulder, take an earbud out, and give her an earful — is judged terrible advice.
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