Do you align politically with your partner on the major issues?

[Anonymous]

Or is it an issue?

[Anonymous]

I do. We've grown together over the decades. I started out as a sort of country club Republican. She was kind of a standard issue college liberal.

I flipped pretty solidly to the left on a lot of social issues and mellowed on my economic stances as I came to understand the economy and its costs & benefits were more nuanced than I had believed as a younger man. Meanwhile, she shifted a bit to the right on economic issues as we acquired some money of our own. Her social stances are pretty much as left as they ever were.

It helps that, regardless of our particular political positions, we both agree that the Republicans have snowballed into a bigger and bigger shit show as the years have passed.

[Anonymous]

Fully aligned on the major issues. I would have difficulty with someone that fundamentally disagreed on the key issues, I think.

[Anonymous]

Highly likely he's not telling you what he really thinks, and he never will, because he knows you'll get hysterical about it.

[Anonymous]

Yes. We can quibble about the details but we're fundamentally aligned.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I wouldn't be married to a dickhead.

[Anonymous]

Yes. The minor issues too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highly likely he's not telling you what he really thinks, and he never will, because he knows you'll get hysterical about it.

Um what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highly likely he's not telling you what he really thinks, and he never will, because he knows you'll get hysterical about it.

Not all men are shady lying pieces of sh*t like yourself. Do better.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we both started as kind of moderate Republicans 20 years ago and moved leftward. I migrated a few years before DH did, but he bailed on the Republicans with the first Trump election, so we never had to deal with that conflict. He is now further to the left on many stances than I am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we both started as kind of moderate Republicans 20 years ago and moved leftward. I migrated a few years before DH did, but he bailed on the Republicans with the first Trump election, so we never had to deal with that conflict. He is now further to the left on many stances than I am.

Similar. But I can't even tell if we moved leftward. (For that matter, I don't know that the Republicans moved rightward so much as they just moved into shrieking, corrupt crazytown.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highly likely he's not telling you what he really thinks, and he never will, because he knows you'll get hysterical about it.

Not all men are shady lying pieces of sh*t like yourself. Do better.

It's not "lying" that I don't tell her everything I think. Stop being such a controlling weirdo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we both started as kind of moderate Republicans 20 years ago and moved leftward. I migrated a few years before DH did, but he bailed on the Republicans with the first Trump election, so we never had to deal with that conflict. He is now further to the left on many stances than I am.

Similar. But I can't even tell if we moved leftward. (For that matter, I don't know that the Republicans moved rightward so much as they just moved into shrieking, corrupt crazytown.)

It's actually you that moved, not them.

[Anonymous]

Close enough that any differences don't matter. As fiscal conservatives who care about the budget, we are both partyless right now.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I don't think I have ever even accidentally made a close conservative friend, let alone spouse.