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So important for spouse to be on same page politically. I'm also fortunate to have a wife who is aligned with me politically at least 90% of the time. She's probably a bigger fan of Trump than even I am.

I had a close friend who was not that lucky. Just over 20 years ago, he got married to a woman who was about as hardcore a liberal as you could get. If you even mentioned George Bush in her house, she'd want to throw you out of there. She literally cried when Al Gore was denied the election victory.

Now my friend was a pretty conservative guy but he was not allowed to speak politics in her presence unless it aligned with her ideology. Slowly over time, my friend allowed himself to get hen-pecked to the extent that he gave up discussing his politics around her completely. One of the last times I saw him was around the 2016 election at a barbecue. Even though he was voting for Trump, he made me promise not to talk about it in front of his wife, because he already told her he was voting for Hillary - in order to keep the peace in the house.

Now that's no way for a man to live.

Now that’s no way for a man to live.

I’ve been told by people that knew me back then that she would not have divorced me if I hadn’t grown a spine. And I see a lot of men today that are like I was back then. I see the writing on the wall even if they don’t.

I cringe when I see a woman and her children walking down the street with the father a couple of steps behind.