Perhaps this is why applying political thinking to personal relationships is such a bust

Frederich Hayek, noted libertarian thinker and steadfast defender of personal liberty, discusses how it's important for modern people to keep the protocols of our family and intimate relationships free from the conventions of the public square.

Part of our present difficulty is that we must constantly adjust our lives, our thoughts and our emotions, in order to live simultaneously within different kinds of orders according to different rules. If we were to apply the unmodified, uncurbed,rules of the micro-cosmos (i.e., of the small band or troops, or of, say, our families) to the macro-cosmos (our wider civilization), as our instincts and sentimental yearnings often make us wish to do, we would destroy it. Yet if we were always to apply the rules of the extended order to our more intimate groupings, we would crush them. So we must lean to live in two sorts of worlds at once.