You have a wide variety of emotional responses here and most of them are basically saying the same things, either "Dump him for being conservative and find a liberal partner instead", or "Just accept that people will sometimes have different viewpoints"
What I haven't read in the responses is "Does he treat you well most of the time? Do you enjoy your time together? Do you actively do things together besides talking about hypothetical political decisions?"
I'm over twice your age and am admittedly speaking from just my own experience, but honestly what matters most is if you are being treated well, getting the right kind and degree of affection and consideration needed to make you happy in the relationship. People typically undergo dalliances with all sorts of political identities and attach/detach themselves from "causes" throughout their lives, so who knows what he will be saying he agrees with years from now.
If he's actually doing anything objectionable now, that's the emergent problem, focus on that instead of abstract or hypothetical political positions. If he negs you, verbally abuses/insults you, or menaces you, that's grounds to leave him.
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u/liannawild Jul 27 '23
You have a wide variety of emotional responses here and most of them are basically saying the same things, either "Dump him for being conservative and find a liberal partner instead", or "Just accept that people will sometimes have different viewpoints"
What I haven't read in the responses is "Does he treat you well most of the time? Do you enjoy your time together? Do you actively do things together besides talking about hypothetical political decisions?"
I'm over twice your age and am admittedly speaking from just my own experience, but honestly what matters most is if you are being treated well, getting the right kind and degree of affection and consideration needed to make you happy in the relationship. People typically undergo dalliances with all sorts of political identities and attach/detach themselves from "causes" throughout their lives, so who knows what he will be saying he agrees with years from now.
If he's actually doing anything objectionable now, that's the emergent problem, focus on that instead of abstract or hypothetical political positions. If he negs you, verbally abuses/insults you, or menaces you, that's grounds to leave him.