Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How long have you been married? Was this not an issue in 2016 and 2020?
Twenty years and he voted for a libertarian in 2016 and Biden in 2020. The libertarian vote was an issue because he couldn’t even remember the candidates name.
I am now aware that he doesn’t respect women but I always thought he was educated enough to understand how damaging the 2016 election was that Trump was an absolute no. I am so disgusted.
OP, many sympathies. You are in the same boat of many, many women. I am going to go out on a limb and guess that you and your husband are both white. There were likely many, many signs over the past 20 years and before you married this man that he did not respect women. You were not trained to spot them, and if you did, you were probably counseled to ignore them. The older I get, I realize that the majority of white American women are trained to select for economic security and status (which goes along with economic security) as the primary desirable attributes in a husband.
Hopefully you can work some magic on him between and and November. Good luck.
This is the OP. Spot on. Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful post. I’m so embarrassed and angry at myself, appreciate your grace.