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After a few weeks of friendship content, I got a note and I want to respond to it because I think it's an interesting question.

Here's the note.

My boyfriend, age 36 and I, age 32, have been dating for six

years. We are both Republicans, but in the last few years, I've moved further right and he's moved

further left. We love each other and plan to get married someday, but I'm afraid we're drifting

politically from each other and that it will

hurt our relationship in the long term. We went from agreeing on politics 90% of the time

to disagreeing about 50%, even though we both voted for Trump after four bad years of Biden.

What do you think? Well, it's funny because I want to answer your question. I really do.

I want to talk about how political differences in a relationship can cause strain and how it's

always better to be more politically aligned with your spouse rather than less as it all goes back

to values, right right and the fact that

you're even writing in means that you know you guys are drifting apart in more

than just politics but I'm completely caught up in the fact that you're 32 and

he's 36 and dating for six years and planning to get married someday.

It's just such a huge red flag for me that you've had this long relationship,

not in your teen years or something, and you aren't engaged and still see this as something

you'll do someday.

This was an anonymous note, or I would have reached back out to this person to say, are you sure politics is the problem here?

It really sounds like something else is going on.

He's 36. What's the delay here?

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