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Can Your Marriage Survive If You Have Different Political Views · The Erica Show

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  Speaker 1: No, that's the Erica Show on GE.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think your relationship can work if you're on
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  Speaker 2: the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: your political views, Cory, you got some issues going on
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just I'm not sure what to do anymore, because,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I come from a family that has, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one set of political beliefs. We all agree with each other,
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  Speaker 3: and my husband and his family have completely contradicting views.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's to the point where they're unfriending me on
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  Speaker 3: social media. You know, the elections are coming up and everything,
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  Speaker 3: and they can't handle what I'm posting. And I truly
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  Speaker 3: don't understand how people say happily married if they have
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  Speaker 3: such different political views.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I mean, it's one thing I think if
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  Speaker 4: they're minor, But it sounds like this is extreme, complete
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  Speaker 4: opposite ends of the spectrum.
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  Speaker 3: It just gets worse and worse, like to the point
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  Speaker 3: that now they're unfriending me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a problem. I don't kind that happen to
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  Speaker 2: be actually, and it wasn't even my fault. I'll list
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  Speaker 2: made a comment on my page and some of my
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  Speaker 2: husband's family unfriended me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I just don't think it's gonna work out. I
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  Speaker 4: think if you're at the opposite end politically, you're not
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  Speaker 4: going to respect the other person as a person. So,
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  Speaker 4: oh that's tough.
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  Speaker 1: Though, if you the love is could be strong.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's gonna work out.
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  Speaker 2: Nine one nine eight six zh one oh five to one?
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  Speaker 2: What insight? What advice do you have for her?
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  Speaker 3: Do you?
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  Speaker 2: And if I's the Erica Show, Corey calling in, she's
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  Speaker 2: at a loss because her and her husband are fighting
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  Speaker 2: more now that it's a political year. They have different views,
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  Speaker 2: but also the families are getting involved and so there's
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  Speaker 2: unfriending happening. Can you survive if you have such opposing views?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think if they're extreme, I don't think so, Ashlynn,
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  Speaker 4: what do you think?
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  Speaker 5: I feel like it could still work. I just think
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  Speaker 5: they just don't bring it up, honestly, because everybody has
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  Speaker 5: their own opinions. They're supposed to really be arguing about
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  Speaker 5: politics anyway, and you know, if the family brings it up,
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  Speaker 5: just ignore them. That's how I honestly feel, because you know,
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  Speaker 5: you can't make people change your mind either.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever been at a family function where a
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  Speaker 2: fight breaks out because of some it's in political.
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  Speaker 5: No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't been to one of my family functions there?
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  Speaker 2: Oh your family's broken up? Like got angry because of that?
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  Speaker 4: Don't I thought everyone I thought it was normal. I
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  Speaker 4: thought everybody's did.
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  Speaker 1: Do you and if five?
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  Speaker 2: As the Erica Show, can your relationship survive? Corey reaching out?
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  Speaker 2: She said, me and my husband are completely different. Our
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  Speaker 2: families feel differently and it's causing fights.
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  Speaker 4: Can we make it amy?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 4: You think?
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  Speaker 1: You know what? I think it's possible, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you love each other, you understand where you're both
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  Speaker 1: are coming from. I feel like if you're both educated
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  Speaker 1: and you have, you know, like a decent stance on
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  Speaker 1: your on your political views, I think it's okay. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's okay if you have a strong relationship. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a weak relationship, I highly doubt that's going
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  Speaker 1: to survive.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, But I don't want to make it uncomfortable in here,
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  Speaker 4: but I will because we're talking about people who are
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  Speaker 4: at the opposite ends of this political spectrum. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: if you are pro life and you're with somebody who's
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  Speaker 4: pro choice, can you really be okay with that?
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  Speaker 2: That's a tough one, But I was about to ask
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  Speaker 2: you the same thing. You've been married, happily married for
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  Speaker 2: a while. You and your husband are on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly he flips the script and he's going for a
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  Speaker 2: candidate that you're like, highly against. Is that gonna make
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  Speaker 2: you break up or you'll work through it?
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  Speaker 3: Wow? Delayed there.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know where your husband stands.