AIBU to stop therapy after learning my therapist’s husband is Reform?

Great so let's pick up on misogyny every time it shows its head in every party.

It also goes to the back of the queue when the misogynist in question is wearing a turquoise rosette.
I think in a week where Reform has given us Rob Kenyon in the most high profile election we're likely to see in some time, it's probably wiser for its supporters not to try arguing for it on the basis of women's rights.

What are their policies please? Yes, I know Google is my friend. Apart from trotting out " stop the boats" what?

This would be a deal breaker for me.
I would dump her if he was simply an average voter, but for him to be standing for the party and actively including her in his campaign is a no from me

So the therapist should be fired because you know the husband is an arse and a racist without even knowing who the husband is and without even knowing the political views of the therapist. What about if she is in the process of divorcing him? Would that be acceptable to you, or should she still be fired because she had the temerity to marry him in the first place. I have seen many posts on here from women who are worried that their husbands have turned to reform. Should they also all lose their jobs?

Well of course it's acceptable. But it's still misogynistic and idiotic when she is good at her job and the therapy is working.

Firing a professional who is good at her job when the therapy is working is like shooting yourself in the foot. But I guess the moral high ground feels good and is a lot easier than the hard work of therapy.

I notice on a lot of posts on the Reform attack threads, posters can't get in quickly enough to say they don't Reform. Even if they do. This is now where we are at. Which is why I will always call people bullies, if they don't like being called fascists, for judging people on who they vote for. Judging people for voting for a party who they say are judgemental! Mental.

I vote Reform and my husband us left leaning. He has voted Labour in the past but says he'll never vote for them again. We have many political discussions and it seems he agrees with most Reform policies when I state them one by one. They have been demonised for years and been called racist so much that I think people are fearful of admitting they vote Reform.
Of course you can have different political views from your partner. Do you think that the millions who will vote Reform are all racist? How insulting.

Is it ok to judge her on the decision to marry a man who holds certain views? It’s it reasonable to assume an intelligent woman would understand her fiancé’s views and if she found them repugnant wouldn’t marry him? (The marriage and standing for election were close together, so not like someone who married 20+ years ago and her DHs views had changed).

Given the marriage is recent, it’s reasonable for the OP to assume she either shares the same views or doesn’t have a problem with them.

Judging her on her choice of a husband is perfectly acceptable.

So we are comparing reform councillors with Nazis and child abusers now? Wow. Villagers with pitchforks come to mind. Slagging off Reform, their members and their voters is the new virtue signalling it seems.

And I am politically homeless, by the way. Didn’t vote in the locals.

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Why would anyone want to be friends with someone who insults them as an 'out of touch leftie' because they don't support Reform?
My in laws are staunch Conservatives. They despise Reform, and are very vocal about the stereotype they hold of those who support them. They would certainly doubt the intelligence and integrity of this therapist and would have her down as "not our type".
Which is obviously snobby of them, but I'm pretty sure they dont qualify as 'lefties', and their popularity in their circle of like minded Tories will not be diminished.

So you wouldn't be civil to a professional high tax paying individual because they vote Reform? That says more about you.

Being a Reform Councillor says you are an arse and a Racist. End of.

I don't agree.

I would not be able to be civil to a Reform person, let alone have them as a friend.

That pesky little thing called misogyny goes to the back of the queue when a chance to call people racist comes along.

The point I am making that judging a professional woman's skills on the basis of her husband's political views is misogynistic in the extreme.

Quite. Why be explicit when teachers and lecturers can place their bias in teaching material?

If I was unfortunate enough to have friends who voted Reform, then it would be no loss at all to lose them.

But none of my friends would dream of voting Reform anyway, because they are decent people.

I do know plenty of Reform voters but they are not the types of people that I would ever aspire to be friends with.

Support for Reform is currently sitting at around 26% in the polls. They are far from a majority.

Personally I think you are being ridiculous not to see the bigger picture and where the OP is coming from with this post but different strokes for different folks and all that ! It is still currently a free country.

Well it is really, isn't it? Given that we only have one vote ourselves, and the 48,199, 999 votes that will collectively decide who governs us belong to other people. That's why we have political discussion and debate, because we know our vote alone is pretty insignificant and its what other people do that will decide our futures.

Exactly. That's absolutely right. There's been a left wing infiltration of our schools for some time now. Hopefully a Reform government will keep that in check.

Wonder why you didn't cancel with her there and then. I'm also wondering how this forum with react if the OP told the platform it was going to drop services because they didn't like mix race couples. Her therapist's choice of partner is personal to her. You can only control how you want to be affected by it. You don't get to change it or cheapen it which is what you did in your OP.