Reddit mentions of Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters

I highly recommend everyone here, especially those with a non vegan SO or friends, to read this book “Beyond Beliefs”: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Beliefs-Relationships-Communication-Vegetarians/dp/1944903305

It is so accurate with both perspectives of vegan-nonvegan relationships that it is crazy. It has so much insight that is helping me understand how I am feeling. Read the opening passage and see if it rings a bell.

I think a lot of posters in vcj are in a trauma narrative where they reduce omnis to the caricature of the perpetrator. This isn’t accurate, helpful or healthy. The book talks in part about this.

The author is a Harvard educated psychologist who coined the term “carnism” so I think y’all will like her.

Check out Beyond Beliefs

Great book by a great author.

This book talks a lot about that

I recommend reading something like this, maybe even wish for it as a christmas-present:

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Beliefs-Relationships-Communication-Vegetarians/dp/1944903305

I haven't read it myself but taken a workshop held by Melanie Joy and she really has awesome tips to defuse these kinds of situations and inciting a positive environment. Recognizing toxic communication and neither retreating nor retaliating but instead openly talking about how it makes you feel, is basically the key in a situation like what you described.