I'm 52. I married at 21 to my "high school sweetheart". She wasn't what I thought she was then and has gotten worse over the years. Day-to-day stuff is perfect between us, but when it comes to serious truth we are in dire straights.
At 19, I had sex with another girl during a breakup and kept it from my future wife. Turns out my future wife wasn't the virgin like I was when we met, and even had sex with my friend after we were married when I said okay. (You can jump off the local bridge too; She didn't take me up on that one, haha) To this day I have been faithful in marriage and she has too other than that one time years ago.
But the biggest issue is abortion. My wife supports it. I was an adopted child of a rape and I absolutely detest abortion. My mother could have gotten one in 1970 in Arkansas but she didn't. At 19, she gave birth to me, put me up for adoption and went into the Air Force.
She went on to marry and have two more children, work for the postal service and air national guard and retire comfortably.
Also, my wife wouldn't listen to me when her job required the vax. I said don't do it, no job is worth it. She got one Pfizer jab anyway. Thankfully she hasn't gotten another and her batch number looks like a less deadly one so far.
I have scriptural grounds for divorce, but I don't think I should. I feel like I should keep trying. Hopefully I won't be another Lot waiting for the day my wife looks back...
Any anons out there sympathize with my pain? Please share.
I have a lib girl. Been together a long time. She had gotten 3 or 4 shots. She still believes in climate change, blah, blah, blah.
I have been down many of the loops others here have done with friends and family.
We don't talk politics anymore. I look around and I don't expect any friends or family members I had prior to 2020 to be around past 2024.
There will be upheaval, pain, and loss in the coming years. No need to force it.
We can only work on our selfs; pray, build strength, endure the storm, see what the new day brings.
in this day & age.... not surprisingly that absolutely anything at all can morph into a political issue.
so far, all these existential issues have been co-opted into political ones (climate=nature ; vaccines=health ; LGBTIXWtFX=biology ; finance=economic liberalism)
Sports, weather, health, grocery, gas, cars to buy, where we can shop, what we can say, what we can buy, what religion we can practice, ...
Division is their best weapon