Thanks Trump for ruining marriages.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/ ... l#comments
Out of the 8 people interviewed, only 1 is from the viewpoint of a Trump voter.
Some select bits from the 7 with TDS:
Kristen:
We started dating. It was a kind of revenge, that I could get a guy like the guy who raped me — I could get him to be nice to me.
I told him I really wanted to work on making the world a better place, and I didn’t feel I could do that within the confines of our marriage.
Sarah:
After the election, though, the moment our kids were in bed I’d hop on the computer, or on the phone. Politically my husband and I are completely aligned, but he was lonely. He felt I was always gone, and even when I was there, I was preoccupied.
That’s not how my husband wants to spend his time. He’d say, “Yeah, I love a strong woman. Everything she’s doing is badass, I’m super-proud of her. But I want her to do less of it.” For me, the fact that he’s so uninterested in what I’m doing has fundamentally changed the way I see our partnership.
Part of it is that he has the perspective that this too shall pass. In my opinion, that comes from the privilege he has as a white male Protestant.
It breaks my heart whenever he says he’s lonely. But again, I’m like, You don’t have to be lonely if you want to put up street signs with me.
I’ve never thought, Maybe I should just stop all this and save my marriage. That would teach our kids something I don’t want to teach them.
He does take care of our children so that I can be at a political meeting until 9:30 p.m. on a weeknight, and he sees that as him putting skin in the game. That is absolutely true, but it doesn’t feel like enough, especially with our military background. I’m like, Dude, during your deployments I was a single parent
Samantha:
Part of what causes fights is that I don’t want to hear his side, and he hates that. Mostly I tell him he needs to think about this more clearly before he talks to me about it, and then I walk away. I’ve heard his side for 30 years. I’m ready to hear new points of view.
Betsy:
I got upset. Finally I said that it’s obvious none of them had been sexually assaulted, and I think that the statistics bear out that women never get due process when they’ve accused someone.
This group sounds like they all had serious issues prior to 2016 and chose to let that become their excuse for everything in their lives they weren't happy about. Now they have chosen to let their anger and past issues consume them and their families.