One of my besties is in a relationship and living with a guy who, I don’t know he supports Trump, in fact if I had to guess I’d say no, but could be wrong. However, he surfs MRA websites and won’t get vaccinated.
For a while, a couple of years ago he would spout off about that MRA stuff and they nearly broke up. Her line was, “Whatever whatever you think is what you think, I just don’t want to hear it.” He thought she was limiting his freedom of expression. Or something. They are negotiated a truce and are still together but during that time she used to call me to use me as a sounding board to figure out what to do, that is, leave him or not. It got so that when I saw it was her as soon as the connection was established I’d say, “Dump him.”
When they met she was recently widowed with a 14 year old daughter. She says he was a great co-parent. He’s smart, and can be funny. I get along with him OK. To her now adult daughter he’s still the step-dad whom she grew to love. Like her mom she’s very liberal, left of me in fact. I guess he takes care not to alienate her.
I don’t understand their relationship but it’s not my problem. She and I have been besties since she dated my closest guy friend ever who died of AIDS back in the 1980s. Friendships don’t always last that long so it’s important to me.
