I'm a married man and father. I've been on here for a year now (half lurking, half member). GAW has become my primary news source thanks to all the researchers and experts in so many areas, in addition to the family-like community.
My wife is a conservative and 45-supporter 100%, but also what I'd consider not fully awake.
I don't think I'm a "conspiracy theorist." I do believe recent events are orchestrated. 9/11 has question marks. Fires intentionally set. Voter fraud is rampant worldwide. Vaccines causing more harm than good. The "pandemic." Public schools serving as indoctrination camps. Etc. Stuff everyone here would likely agree with.
So, despite my wife being uber conservative, when I share a lot of these perspectives with her, I get the "OK, ________" response in a sarcastic tone, like I'm taking it over the top, making a wild and ludicrous claim.
So, I'm curious to hear from other anons willing to share if they have similar experience in this regard with a spouse or fiance or girlfriend, and if so, how to help guide them to their own awakening not influenced by "hubby told me so".
I would like to hear from any married women too, especially if your husband was able to influence your awakening in any way.
Wife here.
First of all, be thankful for the compatibility in political views.
Secondly, are you trying to "tell" her what to believe or think? In which case, she is left with either having to accept it as truth (which might be too much too soon) or doing the "OK, _______" as a defense.
If this resonates with you, try this. Hey, honey, listen to this. Then relate the news article. Then ask, what do you think? Listen and consider what she is stating. Then, follow it up by asking why. See it from her pov.
Next, you get to share what you think and why. What is your rationale for believing/disbelieving the article? Choose supporting rationale that you both agree upon where ever possible (e.g. corruption in politics) so that she can see your line of thinking.
Bring her into your world of thought.
The important part is you are doing this together.
Thx for the input. Typically I just throw out questions rather than tell her. Example: Covid and the vaxxx. I saw thru everything re: the plandemic, she did not. So when the vaxx came around, the inside me wanted to TELL her this is all b.s., but what I did instead was raise a question to her "has the vaxxx been fully tested?" So that's more my approach. Give her easy questions so she can research. She will do so on some topics, especially those related to our child (like crap taught in school) but others she wont research at all and just go w/ what MSM or social media says.
OK. Makes sense.
One of the things that I do with my ultra-lib BIL that I have found kinda works is just asking a question to get him to question like "I wonder why the article didn't mention X". At which point he stops and considers and then admits he doesn't know. At this point I consider it a success.
Or with my liberal SIL, I will say something like "I heard a news report about a school district in So. CA that did not want parents on the zoom calls. I wonder why. Is that happening for your son?" She responds. Then I'd say something like, if it were happening with my kid, I'd be so pissed. There shouldn't be anything said in the classroom I should not hear, etc.
If she tries to defend the school, she will need to back up the defense with research. In my specific case, she had not heard the report AND it wasn't happening in my nephews school district. So, my words/opinions got to be the first imprint on her.
In the example, you mention, is the vaxx tested. Back up one more level where she doesnt have to research - ask her what's the emergency?
EAU (fact) for #of deaths/#of cases (factual calculation). Use Google numbers for this. Say, I don't get it. What's the emergency? I'd take these odds in Vegas.
Then let the subject drop.
She now needs to pick it up (or not) and convince you that it is an emergency. Her walking through the msm narrative should lead her to a point where she begins to realize that the narrative doesn't make sense.
It's kinda like having someone defend the "magic bullet theory". At some point rational thought breaks in and one cannot explain bullet trajectory u-turns and elevation level changes mid-flight.
It's basic level questioning which can be maddening. But, if she has been trusting somewhat, you first need to get her to question. And then explain it to you how what she believes can be so. She will end up teaching herself.
So true. Especially so w/ libs and unawakened. Thankfully my wife is semi advanced/awakened, so the questions can be a bit deeper. But yea, with libs and the non woke you have to sooooooooo dumb down the question, like "whats 2+2?" in order to get their wheels spinning.