Just curious

[meltoine]

H is a Democrat. I've recently changed affiliation from R to Independent.

But H doesn't vote unless I print out his ballot, remind him 6 times to fill it out, and mail it for him.

[audette]

DH is liberal. I assume he votes democrat.


Me, I'm the reason for a SS above - I'm a non-entity in the US political realm. I can't vote.

[killercupcake]

I'm now a Democrat. H is still registered R, says he's Independent, but has been voting for more socially liberal policies in recent years.

[nsl]

My dad would have had a coronary if I had married my first college boyfriend, who was a Republican. He strongly approves of my H. I'll let you connect the dots.

[meltoine]

Dec 28, 2014 23:00:44 GMT -5 Stan said:

Dec 28, 2014 22:03:49 GMT -5 nsl said:

My dad would have had a coronary if I had married my first college boyfriend, who was a Republican. He strongly approves of my H. I'll let you connect the dots.

My parents too, lol. His family did have a coronary. There was once a reminder to him not to forget where he came from because of that woman. When we had been together four years and married one.

MH's parents told him, in regards to religious conservatism not political, that he needed to be the man in our relationship and take control because I was brainwashing him into becoming a trad catholic. Lol at that irony. 

[meltoine]

Dec 28, 2014 23:08:11 GMT -5 Stan said:

Dec 28, 2014 23:05:47 GMT -5 meltoine said:

MH's parents told him, in regards to religious conservatism not political, that he needed to be the man in our relationship and take control because I was brainwashing him into becoming a trad catholic. Lol at that irony. 

I don't know about y'all, but we've barely seen H's parents since then. I don't know why parents think they're going to win over the spouse. Better to judge silently I would think.

His parents left this morning after being here for 10 days. We get along well, but they think some of my beliefs are out there. But they engage in positive discourse for the most part and his mom usually ends up agreeing with me when I explain myself. His dad concedes that it sounds logical, but says he's not going to change the ways he does things, which is fine by me. We had several long but productive conversations when I was planning my home birth with DS2 and at the end his mom was pretty much my biggest advocate. 

[amaristella]

We've agreed that all four of our parents are simply off the deep end politically. We avoid anything political as a topic of conversation as much as possible in order to keep the peace. Luckily they seem to go along with it and for the time being it doesn't seem to cause too many issues.

For a while I thought it might cause problems with regards to A and that I might have to ixnay certain topics of conversation around him but I have since changed my mind. I don't want to filter any other thing about the world for A, so no reason to muzzle the grandparents. If they are influencing him in some way I don't agree with then I plan to handle it the same way my parents did. Wait until we get home and then explain how grandma and grandpa are from another era and while that does not excuse them, it does explain their irrational opinions.

[kpol]

We're both D's. When we first met he had a "W '04" sticker on a mirror or something but he's since turned into "a liberal feminist" since we've been married. Those are his families words as the only news they get is from Fox and/or Rush. His dad is always looking to debate us on topics and we seriously try to avoid it. It's nice being halfway across the world but I'm worried for when we get back to the states. After his dad said we shouldn't visit his gay great uncle because his house had "bad gay spirits" I let it be known, that he wasn't welcome in my house with views like that. Not surprisingly, he's also a racist and misogynist.

[ggirl]

Both democrats. Which was good times in Beaufort lol. We avoided a lot of political discussions when out with friends. Mostly for our sanity.

[Dumbledork]

I said we're both Democrats, but H tends to waver. I almost always argue him over to my side, but he grew up in a very religious, very Rupublican household and he tends to initially lean that way just out of habit.

If you remember, MIL is the one that frequently asks H about his potential to get unregistered guns, if he's heard whisperings of Osama's (meaning Obama's) plans to start picking off religious people like her, and tries to convince him that he needs to get out of the military asap because with The Gayz and The Muslimz being allowed to openly join, it's only a matter of time before 1) he's touched and/or tricked into becoming one of them or 2) the end of the world hits, in which case, he should really spend more time with her in order to be properly saved.

So…yea. She's the kind of Republican that gives other Republicans a bad name. As long as H doesn't lean so far into being a Republican that his mom agrees with him, I'm okay with his occasional trip to the dark side.