As you can tell, sometimes opposites attract.
A ‘mixed marriage’ used to mean one of two things, either the couple were of different races, or perhaps like my parents, they come from different religions. My Dad was Catholic and Mother Baptist. We kids were raised Catholic, but Mom kept her own faith. Somehow, though, it was never that much of an issue throughout their 44 year marriage.
So now you are in your own style of a ‘mixed’ union.
There’s much more to a person than just their political beliefs.
Tell that to many on the Left.
LOL, for me, this boils down to something less than a political opinion as much as a disagreement on two things:
1.) How important politics is at a given level
2.) How much freedom from interference we have from each other in personal matters.
I think politics matter, because eventually, politics does have individual and personal ramifications. As Trotsky once famously said: “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” I feel much the same about politics.
My wife is interested in running our home, personal finances, etc.
I view everything in a historical prism simply because I read, pay attention to, and study history.
However, the old “joke” about a married couple’s roles has some humorous truth, that the husband decides who we should go to war with, how much should be spent on national defense, how high or low the national debt should be, which treaties should be signed or broken, and so on. The wife decides how much to spend on a new car and when, what schools the kids should go to, how much can be spent on food, clothes, etc...
As for personal freedom between a husband and wife, my wife and I had an interaction some years back that illustrates differences in our personal tastes in things media-wise:
There was an author who called Ronald Reagan an “Amiable Dunce”, and he was all the rage on the morning letter network shows, “Good Morning America” and such. Now, I don’t watch any of these things, and stopped watching television news broadcasts, or reading newspapers back in the mid-late Nineties.
But my wife has them all on, all the time. She says they are there for background noise, and watching her closely, I have to believe some of it is true, since she appears not to be paying the least attention much of the time. But she does pay attention as well, and just having it on as “noise” still allows it to hit your ears and eyes. Plus, she watches “Ellen” and “Oprah” and junk like that. She is no leftie or even a liberal (as unsolicited comments on a variety of things has ably proven to me) so I have had to pass off her watching those things as some kind of female thing I don’t understand.
Anyway, one morning I walk into the kitchen, and for the third day in a row, they still have this author on. It just pissed me off, and I blurted out “WTF is wrong with these people? You would think there wasn’t a damn thing of significance happening anywhere for days on end but the opinion of an author who called Ronald Reagan an “amiable dunce” and she confronted me:
“I don’t comment to you or get on your case for anything you watch, read, or listen to. Don’t inject commentary on anything I watch, read, or listen to.”
Heck, what else could I say except “Okay.”?