3G (Going Green Gently) to avoid divorce?

3G or = Going Green Gently

An interesting piece in the NYT, Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes, gives examples of some families that have experienced conflict when one member "greened" faster or wider than another...One of the people featured, Ms. Buzzell, "suggests that couples can overcome such differences if they treat each other gently. She advises partners who have a newfound passion for the issue to change only a few things at a time and provide lots of explanation.“It is like exercise,” Ms. Buzzell said. “Take it slowly.” "

The article also mentions Robert Brulle, a professor of environment and sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, who "said he had seen divorces among couples who realized that their values were putting them on very different long-term trajectories.“One still wants to live the American dream with all that means, and the other wants to give up on big materialistic consumption,” Dr. Brulle said. “Those may not be compatible.”..."

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This article connects the dots quite well, and reduces one's actions to the underlying value system. Once a person gets 'educated enough' to see the linkage, then he/she would start thinking about the value system. That is about as much as one can ask.