Anyway, aside from the excruciating back pain I am experiencing at the moment, I have some urge to write about the importance of disagreements.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and put my relationship with my Handy-Man Hero in the hot seat for a second.
Since most of the people who read my blog are family and friends, as far as I know, then you know I'm undoubtedly liberal. For those of you who know my Handy-Man Hero, then you probably know he is moderately conservative.
Since you know that I'm liberal, then you know that I have voted left since I turned 18. This includes issues with gay rights, animal rights, civil rights, taxes etc.
Last week, Handy-Man and I got into heated discussions about politics, which I must say, I thoroughly enjoy with similar-siding people, but had the most difficult time conversing about such issues with H-M. Why? Well, obviously because we oppose each other's opinions. There is no convincing him of my opinions and there is certainly, absolutely NO CHANCE he will convince me of his. We know that certain debates will have to end in "agree to disagree."
Funny side note: the night H-M and I met, we got into the political chit-chat... crazy how I still fell for him and his conservative ways. ;-)
Anywho, after getting heated with him last week about these semantics and after getting a tad frustrated with each other, I realized that it is wonderfully fantastic that I can actually have these kind of argumentative conversations with him.
I think our differentiating views keep us, as a couple, fairly balanced. I love that we challenge each other and I absolutely LOVE that we are both educated enough to have such discussions. I mean... hell, the previous lame-o's I dated before my Handy-Man Hero had no regard for my democratic ways, nor for their own ways.
So what I'm saying is... even though I disagree with most of my H-M's views, I appreciate the fact that he enjoys being on top of his politics - even if one of his sources are Fox News. Ugh.
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