Do any of you deal with NOT sharing the same stance on politics as your spouse..

Well for us, I think that for the most part our stance on politics is pretty much the same. Now this isn't something that happened because of planning, it just turned out that soon after the two of us met we realized that we do agree with political issues. Our feeling is that there needs to be a third party that is successful that is more of a middle ground than either of the two parties right now are. So when it comes to this year's presidential election I don't know where he is going for sure and I don't even know where I am going for sure, but I definitely think that there needs to be change.

We are very similar. The only difference I can think of off hand is foreign policy. He is a staunch Ron Paul supporter (I supported Paul as well) but the isolationist side I have a problem with. I agree with most, we should stop borrowing money to send to other countries but I do think we need to be the super power we have been. I am fr a VERY strong military.

I am very political. My husband isn't. He says I am political enough for both of us. But he knows I am heavily involved in local and national politics. It makes me happy so he supports me. Most of the time he stays out if it or watches the kids so I can go to rallies or meetings. I respect that he doesn't care for politics. He respects that I do. Although he did go to one of the primary debates with me. But I think that was more to be there in case I needed bail or things go rough. My state is known for getting ugly and I usually support candidates that go against the status quo so sometimes he goes and acts as a body guard.

In the same area but not exactly politics, I once left a woman because of a case of diametrically opposed belief. We had here the famous Lindy Chamberlain case, where the media had a feeding frenzy and most of Australia, including many supposedly reasoned public figures, got on board, and she was convicted of killing her mentally disabled child. She claimed the child was taken by a dingo at Ayers Rock tourist camp. I never did believe she was gulity, so when I was studying I took a Sociolgy minor and tackled a unit on the law, which led to doing a paper on the Chamberlain case. By this time she had been pardoned on the grounds that the original verdict was unsound. In the course of this paper I discovered: No Motive, No Weapon, No Witness, No Opportunity, No Confession, No Arterial Spray, No Scissor Cuts, No Foetal Blood in the Car, No Crime, and No Case. The forensic evidence was abysmally compromised, in fact what the scientists thought was infant blood was actually rustproofing. The local aboriginal trackers had, right from the start, told police, "The dingo took the child." The local park rangers had complained for years that the dingos were a major problem, and there had been several previous near misses. Only a matter of months later a child was taken by a dingo at a different tourist park, Frazer Island. Etc. She was clearly not guilty. My partner, on the other hand, had immediately jumped onto the bandwagon and pronounced her guilty. This was before we met, I might add. But even though Lindy had been cleared and released, and in the face of all the evidence I told her about, she still believed implicitly that Lindy was guilty. In the face of this inflexibility I found myself totally disillusioned with her, and called the relationship off. I can't imagine getting into a relationship with someone of diametrically opposed political, religious, or philosophical beliefs. These would appear very early in our discourse, me being the person I am, and I would walk away no matter how attracted I was. I don't believe one can build a lasting relationship where such differences exist. Lash

we agree on most stuff, and have learned in some areas that we have to cede the upper hand to one or the other. In the areas where we strongly disagree, we avoid the full out debates because they end up not being productive, but we kind of pick around the edges of them so over the years we have both come to an understanding of the others position.

Thankfully I don't have that problem because my hubby and I are on the same team. We are Democrats who are for the people. People in my family or friends who support the other side I don't discuss these anything political with them because it would get too heated for me to deal with. I can't imagine living with someone who might differ on this subject. It just wouldn't work for me I believe.

mommyboo My hubby and I are both in the same party, but he is more extreme and I am more moderate. I don't understand how James Carville and Mary Matalin live together. He is sooooo far left and she is sooooo far right Still they seems very happy as a couple and as a family. I give them a lot of credit because I don't think I could live with someone so far extremem from me. I don't agree the GOP is anti-women..I think that is a talking point the left has put out and many bought into it.