For this Forum installment, we wanted to know how you navigate the potential political minefield of family gatherings.

We asked you if there are folks of varying political persuasions at your Thanksgiving celebration. Or if you keep away from certain friends or family over the holidays, to avoid disagreements – and spilled cranberry sauce?

Maybe you have a special way to get through meals without any of that happening. Or maybe there are people you've cut out of your life completely because their beliefs are too much for you to stomach.

Your responses laid out a smorgasbord of experiences. Many of you said your Thanksgiving celebrations bring together people of different views. Some of you said you know that politics will stir arguments, so you find other things to talk about.

Others said current events are so significant that you can no longer, in good conscience, be with those on the other side of issues, such as immigration or how we use our military. Yet others said your relationships are important enough that politics will always take second place.

You can read a collection of these responses below and send in your own to us at forum@usatoday.com using the subject line "Forum Thanksgiving Politics."

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