Does anyone NOT talk politics with their spouse/partner?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband has always hated politics since I met him and I have no idea on his stance on the typical big issues (though I could probably guess). That was fine for a little while when life was less political but I've found myself wanting to vent about events since covid and he's been so unreceptive that it caused some marital issues (bruskly saying he doesn't care and to stop talking about it).

Just take a hint he doesn’t want to talk about it and you won’t have marital problems. You’re blaming him for something you need to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I despise politics and politicians and my wife is completely uninterested in it (she is from another country). We talk all the time about all kinds of things but almost never politics. One thing is for sure - talking about it won't change anything.
Hell, even going out and protesting or spending your entire life as a political activist won't change anything. I have a low opinion of people who talk politics because they are naive

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[Anonymous]

Yes, we talk about politics or issues that are politicized. We don’t always agree. We often emphatically debate.

[Anonymous]

We don’t talk about elections, individual politicians, legislation, or judicial decisions. We do talk about issues, but not from a political perspective. We talk about the tragedy of elementary school shootings - how someone could get to a place tat they want to do that. We don’t discuss gun laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I despise politics and politicians and my wife is completely uninterested in it (she is from another country). We talk all the time about all kinds of things but almost never politics. One thing is for sure - talking about it won't change anything.
Hell, even going out and protesting or spending your entire life as a political activist won't change anything. I have a low opinion of people who talk politics because they are naive

They always just seem shallow to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I despise politics and politicians and my wife is completely uninterested in it (she is from another country). We talk all the time about all kinds of things but almost never politics. One thing is for sure - talking about it won't change anything.
Hell, even going out and protesting or spending your entire life as a political activist won't change anything. I have a low opinion of people who talk politics because they are naive

So you've noticed no social/political (they are intimately related) changes in your lifetime? No changes in, say, the treatment of people who are black, female, gay? Were you alive in the 60s--Medicare/Medicaid, not a big change? Obamacare, no big deal? Changes in the way the second amendment is interpreted resulting in the country being flooded with guns, unnoticed by you? This little pandemic we're having, politics had nothing to do with how that was handled?

LOL about your "low opinion."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I despise politics and politicians and my wife is completely uninterested in it (she is from another country). We talk all the time about all kinds of things but almost never politics. One thing is for sure - talking about it won't change anything.
Hell, even going out and protesting or spending your entire life as a political activist won't change anything. I have a low opinion of people who talk politics because they are naive

So you've noticed no social/political (they are intimately related) changes in your lifetime? No changes in, say, the treatment of people who are black, female, gay? Were you alive in the 60s--Medicare/Medicaid, not a big change? Obamacare, no big deal? Changes in the way the second amendment is interpreted resulting in the country being flooded with guns, unnoticed by you? This little pandemic we're having, politics had nothing to do with how that was handled?

LOL about your "low opinion."

Right? "Spending your entire life as a political activist won't change anything," says the man who knows nothing about what activists do.

[Anonymous]

Not an interesting topic…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is everyone talking about "politics" like it's some knd of separate topic and not about everything we do and experience? Our money, our food, our transportation, infrastructure, education, health care, etc.
Right now it's our values.
How does anyone opt out of talking about everything?

And the wife who claims to not know what political affiliation her husband is? What? After these last 7 years? Are they cognitively challenged, depressed, living under a rock?

I talk about food when discussing what farmers market I’ll buy from this week or what recipes to try, no politics necessary. I talk about transportation when I need to buy a new car or complain about gas prices-sometimes political. I talk about education when I discuss curriculum with teachers and do homework and supplemental education with dc. I’ll discuss health care with my doctors. Majority of topics don’t center around politics unless you want them to. I don’t want my life to be like that. If you do though great I won’t judge you for it.

[Anonymous]

Politics governs everything about your life. Everything. Clean water, clean air, the safety of the food you eat, the roads you drive on, the way your boss treats you, the schools your children go to, whether medical care is available to you and whether your doctor Is licensed and how much you pay for it, the interest rate on your mortgage, what you pay to light and heat your home, whether there are police you can call when you are in trouble and how they will treat you when they arrive, whether your car has seatbelts and airbags, whether someone with your skin color or sex or sexual preference can have a credit card or a certain job, the width of the slats on the crib your baby sleeps in, whether you have a local sports team to root for. Everything. This is what you are saying you don't care about when you say you don't care about politics.

[Anonymous]

We discuss politics about 5 minutes each month. Usually local politics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t talk about it because it doesn’t matter. Too many other important things to discuss

Enjoy your privilege.

+1 So tonedeaf.

I grew up in a family that discussed where the next meal is coming from. They didn't talk politics either. You two can shove your privilege now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Neither of us cares about that crap, no way I’m talking about it if I don’t have to. Maybe a couple days before elections we will discuss it but after that never. Absolutely not happening.

How did this happen to your general thought process? Low IQ? Limited life experience? Depressed? What?

DP. Never was into circle jerks or whine fests. And always avoided people who stood up for everything that's good and against everything that's bad.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My husband has always hated politics since I met him and I have no idea on his stance on the typical big issues (though I could probably guess). That was fine for a little while when life was less political but I've found myself wanting to vent about events since covid and he's been so unreceptive that it caused some marital issues (bruskly saying he doesn't care and to stop talking about it).

So awesome when your spouse tells you (briskly!) that he doesn't care about something that interests/concerns you and that you should stop talking about it.

The problem is that people who love talking politics usually don't like to listen.

[Anonymous]

Dh and I probably have the same feelings about everything but he often can’t see the other side. Whereas I like to argue the middle of every issue.

Like abortion. He’s very very anti abortion. But then he can’t believe it wouldn’t be available for rape, disabilities, incest, life of the mother. He just wants to repeat that it’s gross that someone would be allowed to abort a 37 week old baby.