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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More importantly, has anyone successfully pulled their spouse back to what they consider to be reality?  I'm glad my Dad stayed an Eisenhower-Republican his whole life - he was an eternal optimist and believed in people.   ...

When I hear about these guys veering way off the map I have several thoughts: One, are they medically OK? Seriously, there may be something wrong. Then, I feel like I need to cancel their cable TV, their radio and their internet connections that are feeding their paranoia. Finally, they need to see the world, especially far off exotic places like Western Africa, China, Haiti or just a storefront church in Southeast DC. Meet some folks who are different and do something, anything, with those people. Eat lunch, go fishing, prepare a meal.
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OP here again.  Thanks, this is the kind of response I am looking for.  Truth is we all know some capable, intelligent, likable people who may also happen to be preppers (tho we may not know they are preppers; secrecy is a part of it).    The behavior is not mental.  The paranoia may be real, but not on the part of the spectrum that requires medication.

But what do you do when 
-you are married to this person and you can't turn off all sources of news?
-your tweens decide maybe this is a good time to rebel against Dad and Dad loses all creds with them.  (They will rebel anyway, but he really loses creeds; I am sure many people are distant from their parents and politics is one piece of it).
-the mid-life crisis is a political move to the right and no longer respects others' views while maintaining it is his views that aren't being respected.

I can say I do not like the family dynamic and that I think we need family therapy.  
So this begs the questions,
Are all the preppers who are baby boomers all getting therapy? divorcing? estranging themselves from their children?
He is alone in his views in this house, but he is not alone in his views.

I suppose if I wanted to compare it to something it would be someone becoming a born-again Christian but the family doesn't go along and the strain begins.

Moderates, your thoughts?
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