Hi, Steph. I've been listening for around five years, discovered you just before you're deplatforming.

My issue is slightly different from the majority of your call-ins, but probably rooted in the same issues.

I've in my early 60s, and my current wife and I are considering separation after 30 years,

and I'm seeking understanding of whether to

fight to remain or to move forward on my own. The main issue, as I see it, is that our views

don't coincide. I've over the years gone from an animal rights activist and general liberal

leftists, moved towards scientific skepticism and atheism, to now a position of many of the

positions you espouse. My wife, however, is still in MPC land, doesn't really engage in the

world in that way and maintains broadly liberal viewpoints without needing to explore or question

them.

This generally is not a problem in everyday life as we get on well and have a good,

comfortable life.

In a one-to-one scenario, it is generally fine, but problems have arrived recently when being with other people with friends and relatives, many or most of who are similar NPC leftists.

In conversations, I don't go full in by any means, but do often question the narratives, and I'm seeing

somewhat as a curious contrarian. In these scenarios, my wife gets quite very annoyed with me to a point where she now gets uptight and anxious when we are with other people.

A quick background of our family situation.

We were both married before.

I had three children with a child abuse victim, which ended up in acrimonious separation and the courts.

I didn't have contact with my children for about eight years and only reunited with them when

they were about 18. I'm now very close to them all. My wife had a child from previous marriage,

who I lived with since she was three, consider her my daughter and we get unwell.

We then had two children of our own, even though my knowledge of your peaceful parenting was not then known.

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