Sleeping With the "Enemy"? Maybe a Mixed-Political Marriage Is a Good Thing
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10/01/2024 07:20 PM
When my husband and I first started dating back in 2016, we were politically aligned as Democrats. I even drove him to the polls to vote for Hillary Clinton. But after weathering business storms exacerbated by the pandemic, his voting interests have shifted, and he now identifies as a Republican, which puts us among the four percent of married or cohabiting couples in the United States who are in mixed-political relationships, according to the Institute For Family Studies. This would be easier for me to stomach if it were, say, the Mitt Romney era of the Republican party. But I recently . . .
