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struggle4progress

(118,236 posts)
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 10:18 PM Aug 2017

Presidency destroying marriages


MEGAN CERULLO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, August 5, 2017, 3:22 PM

... A Wakefield Research study, entitled the "Trump Effect on American Relationships," reports that 29% of Americans either married or in a relationship acknowledged the current political climate was causing tension with their partner.

And 22% said they knew a couple whose marriage or relationship was negatively impacted since Trump was elected in November ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-presidency-destroying-marriages-country-article-1.3386982
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SouthernIrish

(512 posts)
3. I would never date a Republican, much less marry one.
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 10:58 PM
Aug 2017

If a man votes against the rights of other's and doesn't like animals, he needs to just move along. Not going to waste my time or his.

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)
5. It'll be written in the vows soon - for better or worse, but not worst - which are trump voters
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 11:16 PM
Aug 2017

until your voting record and true nature is exposed - I - provisionally - do.

I'm being silly.

I agree. That's no way to go through a marriage (or life).

herding cats

(19,558 posts)
4. I get it. I couldn't be married or in a relationship with a Trump supporter.
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 11:00 PM
Aug 2017

We'd be intellectually just too different, not to mention ideologically polar opposites.

ecstatic

(32,653 posts)
6. Raising my hand
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 11:24 PM
Aug 2017

We both voted for Hillary but I'm a much angrier person now. Just the mention of Trump changes my mood.

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
8. "It's been hard being married to you since about November" - husband in March
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 12:01 AM
Aug 2017

And we both care about other people (aka, we're Democrats)

CousinIT

(9,225 posts)
9. Not only marriages. I haven't spoken to my goddamned brother for supporting Trump
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 01:06 AM
Aug 2017

Not since I learned about it. I hope I NEVER need him for anything and he NEVER needs me for anything either. Because I want no more to do w/ him.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
10. When you're married to what turns out to be a dumbass . . .
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 07:33 AM
Aug 2017

. . . I could see how that would take its toll.

I mean, at what point in life does the dart land on "A traitorous and unsuccessful CEO knee deep in Russian Oil Gangster cash running the country is a GREAT idea"?? Does it come after you've given up and feel no one is listening to poor white "werkin class" you? Or was it there all along just lying dormant?

The fact that 57 million people thought there was nothing wrong with putting Sarah Palin one bad heartbeat away from the nuclear codes should have raised a mile-high red flag when it comes to what our country faces now.

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