Dating someone with different political views

[Anonymous]

I've been dating my bf for almost a year and I think I need to throw in the towel. We have different political views. I don't particularly care. At first it was fine. But lately, I think just with the election heating up, he constantly keeps bringing up that he can't believe I'm voting for who I'm voting for, he thinks it's stupid (??? what an insane thing to say? I would NEVER say that to him - well, actually today I finally snapped and said "I think who you're voting for is dumb but I wouldn't say that because it's rude and disrespectful"), a couple weeks ago it was a joke about how women shouldn't vote, before that it was a comment about how if I really respected him I would vote for his preferred candidate because his friends' wives vote for the same person as them. I genuinely don't care that he doesn't agree with me on most things and he claims to feel the same and yet every week it's a lecture from him about how "Women shouldn't be allowed to vote because this is what they do."

I really don't want to be single at nearly 32 because I thought he was the one, but he's not the guy I thought I signed up to date and I'm over it. Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

This has got to be a troll. Your so-called bf sounds like a complete loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has got to be a troll. Your so-called bf sounds like a complete loser.

Sadly, I am not a troll. I’ve posted in other threads about my bf just never in this much detail.

[Anonymous]

Uh. The first time a guy told me I shouldn’t vote would be when I left him.

[Anonymous]

Please be a troll.
If not, your problem isn't your BF's political views.

It's that he's a misogynist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please be a troll.
If not, your problem isn't your BF's political views.

It's that he's a misogynist.

No. I posted about my bf's political opinions before in another thread. Jeff even quoted me in his daily blog post about popular threads.

[Anonymous]

Imagine spending your life with someone so disrespectful. Pro tip: whatever annoys you now only gets way, way worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imagine spending your life with someone so disrespectful. Pro tip: whatever annoys you now only gets way, way worse.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. If it's bad 8-9 months into the relationship it's only getting worse.

[Anonymous]

Oh my dear child, imagine what it would be like in 10, 20 years...guarantee you'll be divorced. Why even continue? This guy sounds awful. Women shouldn't have the vote? Can you imagine having kids with this loser and then being tied to him for life?

[Anonymous]

Let me guess. You're the lib and he's the MAGA and he rants and raves constantly about how Democrats never let him have freedom of speech and yet he is the one constantly bringing up politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my dear child, imagine what it would be like in 10, 20 years...guarantee you'll be divorced. Why even continue? This guy sounds awful. Women shouldn't have the vote? Can you imagine having kids with this loser and then being tied to him for life?

I know. I just thought he was the one. He was so perfect for the first six months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh my dear child, imagine what it would be like in 10, 20 years...guarantee you'll be divorced. Why even continue? This guy sounds awful. Women shouldn't have the vote? Can you imagine having kids with this loser and then being tied to him for life?

I know. I just thought he was the one. He was so perfect for the first six months.

Be very, very grateful he showed you his true colors before you got in deeper. He's annoying now, he'll be INSUFFERABLE later. Why set yourself up for misery? Cut your losses now and get out.

[Anonymous]

Being single at 32 is...common in DC. Even conservative women here don't get married until later.

It's fine. Better to get married at 40 to a nice guy than to get married at 32 to someone you'll divorce by 40.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been dating my bf for almost a year and I think I need to throw in the towel. We have different political views. I don't particularly care. At first it was fine. But lately, I think just with the election heating up, he constantly keeps bringing up that he can't believe I'm voting for who I'm voting for, he thinks it's stupid (??? what an insane thing to say? I would NEVER say that to him - well, actually today I finally snapped and said "I think who you're voting for is dumb but I wouldn't say that because it's rude and disrespectful"), a couple weeks ago it was a joke about how women shouldn't vote, before that it was a comment about how if I really respected him I would vote for his preferred candidate because his friends' wives vote for the same person as them. I genuinely don't care that he doesn't agree with me on most things and he claims to feel the same and yet every week it's a lecture from him about how "Women shouldn't be allowed to vote because this is what they do."

I really don't want to be single at nearly 32 because I thought he was the one, but he's not the guy I thought I signed up to date and I'm over it. Thoughts?

If this is true and you are not a troll then yes you are stunningly stupid to have kept this person in your life

[Anonymous]

This really better be your last post about him. Dump him immediately.