How important is political alignment in your relationship?

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TheRealPepperPotts · Accepted Answer

This is hard. I think  mentality, values and approach  to political things is more important than exact alignment on the issues. The reason is because I don't particularly like hardliners when it comes to things like politics. There's too many unknowns to be extremely one way or another, and the core of politics is facade and subterfuge. For example, let's say I'm pro-choice and someone else is pro-life. If they can appreciate my reasoning, while choosing to disagree and voting their own conscience, I totally respect that. But if they insist on  my agreement and alignment with them , and reject my entire character because I cannot change my personal position at that point in my life, that's completely different. I can't work with that. People change, and as the late Stephen Hawking supposedly said, "Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change".  Fundamental values  shouldn't change, but opinions definitely should, given new and accurate information. I am glad I am not the same person I was at 20, and I hope I am a better person at 40 than I am now. I have a broader perspective than I did at 20, and some of the opinions I held then are embarrassing to me now. So maybe  political evaluation and approach  is important, not necessarily total alignment, if that distinction makes sense.

alice55 · Accepted Answer

Not too important to me as long as he is not too extreme in his views (like if he's intolerant of my own view or racist for me it's too much) but if not I'm ok to have different view, important things is to be tolerant and not pushing our own opinion on the other person.

My grandfather have quite extreme view but he's tolerant if me or my mother have other view than his own, he don't start a fight over it.

StarWarGirl · Answer

It's not important for us. I and my boyfriend we both agree to disagree if our thoughts doesn't align on any topics. And there has been many such instances. We both do have different mentality. Like, I am in favour of having covid vaccine, I am fully vaccinated, but he is against it. I have my own religious views he has completely different from mine. I do involve a lot into discussion about government and it's policy, but he is completely out of that and has no interest.

So we both are aware about each other views and we always try to know about each other views and we do respect that. Just we acknowledge that we have different views and we are ok with it. We don't indulge into heated discussion as we know it will go nowhere and of no use to spoil our lovely bond on such things.

In relationship, morality and basic life plans and our views on those things should be aligned more than political alignment.

sage2021 · Answer

It's very important to me. A friend of mine waited 14 years for the man she loved to ask her to marry him. After they got married it was during the 2016 campaign time to elect a new president. Trump or Hillary.
She is a Democrat and he is a Republican. Yep! They ended up getting a divorce because of all of the political differences between them.

Wayneg89 · Answer

I don't mind a difference in opinion politically when it comes to a relationship. That being said, I couldn't date someone extreme left or extreme right just because those people tend to not be willing to hear the opinions of the other side with a level head.

Eempriyanka · Answer

Very important.. my existence depends on it!

DishLady · Answer

It's not.

dudeinohio · Answer

Good but not necessary

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