choose

 You made your choice;
         I made my choice.
                    Your choice did
     not make me choose to love
 you less, but if I choose to question
 you about your choice
              and you choose to love
     me less, I still choose to love you.
  I may feel your choice pushes me
 toward another choice, one
    that I may not choose otherwise.
                   Some choices
 are right, some choices are
     wrong; some choices are neither
right not wrong choices.  Sometimes there
         isn't a right choice
          or a wrong choice
                  Some choices
       aren't even choices.
       But the first choice is no
  more the right choice
             than the choice that comes after
      is the wrong choice.
                       So choose,
           and I will choose too;
                          I choose
                       to choose love.

Liz McFadzean

Relationships are hard and confusing, within families or nations.  When in doubt I lean into a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. :  “I have decided to stick with love.  Hate is too great a burden to bear.”