“I understand why people aren’t open to falling in love across the political divide. We want a potential spouse to share our values. Yet when we refuse to love anyone who disagrees with us, even on hot-button issues, we close ourselves off to loving anything but an image of ourselves.”
Disagree. You can save yourself a whole lot of heartache(and cash!) by not getting involved with a liberal especially marrying one. Sure you might convert a liberal who has been misinformed or just ignorant on facts. But an indoctrinated liberal is virtually impossible to change their viewpoint. This guy is in for a world of hurt. He can ignore the elephant in the room for a while but eventually it will rear its ugly head and destroy the marriage.
I agree, Prince.
Stay with your kind. You don’t have to agree on every single issue, but a few key ones are:
Your religion and how devout you are
How you handle money
Your approach to work
Open marriages
Abortion
Guns
If you can agree on those, a lot of smaller issues will follow or you will compromise.
A devout person who believes in the sanctity of marriage will never be happy in an open marriage no matter how much gaslighting they get.
A committed worker who lives within their means will never be happy with a sybarite who blows their paycheck every week, etc.
Recipe for disaster.