...to want to divorce my DH over general election?

[SafferUpNorth]

Feeling sick to the stomach at the predicted result. Have always assumed DH and I were roughly on the same page politically, but turns out he voted Tory 'because it's best for the economy' (WTF).

Just had a massive row... I actually cannot get him to acknowledge that by all indicators child poverty and food bank use have skyrocketed under the Tories and things will get even bleaker when the Uk 'gets Brexit done'. And let's not even mention climate change. I am terrified and DH thinks it's a great result. Is this where we part ways??

As the Tory policies are best for Britain I am with the husband on this.

in your own case just read a bit more about Tory policies and you will see how much better they are.

namechangenugget, does insulting someone who is deeply distressed make you feel good? Saffer is not being “controlling”.

I think you are being massively dramatic OP.

Honestly - they aren't the bloody Nazis, they are the mainstream majority party of the UK, elected decisively to power by people of all demographics.

Some grips are needed this morning I feel.

I sympathize with you OP and I find a lot of the comments on here to be pretty clueless. That said, I think the Labour Party with Corbyn as a leader would have been disastrous for the economy too. There were no good choices.I am taking comfort from the fact that at least he will resign now. The turkeys that voted for Christmas will vote labour again in the future.

Me and my bf don't agree politically. That's ok, I don't have to agree with him, and he doesn't have to agree with me.

'They aren't the bloody nazis' - they will be sending plenty of people to their deaths through their austerity and further cuts.

If i woke up next to a boris supporter, I'd run for the hills

This is the first time my DH and I have voted for the same party. Yabu he does not need to have the same opinions as you!

" In fact my husband is furious with his mother for voting Tory as he has been told by his boss that Brexit will lose him his job as she will be moving the company. She still voted Tory."

I thought voting based on economic self interest was a bad thing?

My DH, who owns a small business, has always supported the conservatives but at least this year he didn’t canvas, leaflet, put up a sign or poster outside our house, go to dinners hosted by Michael Gove etc, or ‘tell’ for them - all things he’s done in the past - as he can’t stand Johnson. I can’t bear the Conservatives but it’s perfectly possible to be happy over many years with differing political opinions.

hahaha get a life

How can you live with someone so devoid of empathy and common sense?

There is nothing to be celebrating today if you value the welfare of society above the self and if your husband cannot see that, how can you stay with him?

I thought voting based on economic self interest was a bad thing?

It is unless it labour. Then you can do this and also expect others to vote for your self interest too.

No, you don't part ways over voting in an election. Everyone is entitled to vote for who they want. I am a Labour voter, and our family has been split 50/50, but I'm aware our Tory voting members of family truly think it's the right thing for us and the country. They didn't vote out of spite. There's nothing left to do now but accept the result - because it was a very clear result. (And pray that our country isn't fucked, but if it is at least we have the peace of mind of knowing we didn't cause it!)

I couldn't be married to someone who voted Conservative.

image in head of putting on dating site: must not vote x party? I remain friends with people & family who vote differently to me - I just refrain from talking about politics in specifics. Now if he had voted for Farage you might have had a point - but there are a lot of reasons some people believe in voting Conservative - I don't agree with them, but that's what living in a democracy is about. You come across as being a bit arrogant op - dh & I have voted for different parties for years - we agree to disagree -

LTB

I voted differently to my husband. I’m grateful I live in a democracy. I don’t need all his views to align with mine to love him.

What a very shallow attitude.

If it's a dealbreaker for you then it's a dealbreaker for you.
Although, as a PP has said, it's odd that you just assumed what his opinions are without discussing them.

Dh and I voted differently, though neither conservative. We are allowed to make our own choices however unsavoury!

Voting Conservative I can live with but I think I would struggle a bit if my DH was in favour of leaving the EU though tbh, especially as we have university age children - but it’s inconceivable that he would be the kind of person who would do that. In fact he filled the house with ‘conservatives for Europe’ T-shirts, coasters etc and manned their pro-remain stall in the town centre, which is more than his left-leaning wife did.

He'd be better off divorcing you by the sounds of it

What a very shallow attitude

Not seen you for a while. No change.

You married someone without knowing their politics

People change. Not everyone is tribal and votes for a red or blue rosette every tyime (as we found out last night).

My husband and I had had a couple of mild arguments running up to the election. He is a one-nation-Tory type - likes of John Major and Ken Clarke. But he voted Libdem yesterday.

His politics are not what they were 20 years ago when we got married, and neither are mine. I usually vote Libdem but have voted Tory at local level. It all depends on the issues at the time.

I find it really odd that people think you stay the same politically all your life.