I’ve been thinking a lot about James Carville and Mary Matalin lately, and wondering how in the world they do it? How do they not want to literally kill each other? Oh, to be a fly on their wall. I want to know what discussions are like in that household, do they eschew any political discussion whatsoever or do they have pan throwing, knock down drag out fights? I just cannot imagine it…
When I hear about couples where one is voting for Kerry and one for Bush, I wonder how they manage to get along? I mean, sure, this election isn’t marriage ending material, but if you don’t agree on something fundamental like that, it seems like it would make things more of a challenge. I just can’t fathom a time I would have been interested in a long term relationship with a Republican or a person who thought global warming was a joke or a person who was a fundamentalist. That’s just not my cup of tea, and I know I personally couldn’t respect and live with someone with whom I disagreed on topics of importance to me.

This is where I become much more grateful for the union that I’m in. My husband and I agree on these big issues. We agree on politics, religion, how to raise the kids…we even agree that we both want to live off the grid and leave the consumerism of our culture. An amazing occurance seeing as we didn’t really discuss some of these issues prior to getting in deep. I’ve got to be grateful for this, because it would likely be hard to find another person out there who shares a lot of my passions, concerns and opinions. So I guess this tells me to quit sweating the small stuff, appreciate what I’ve got here and move forward with it.

We’ve been in a really good marriage place lately. I think we just feel the freedom to rant and rave about divorce and all that because, deep down, we know it ain’t gonna happen. We’re in this for the long haul and the rough patches of road are just that, rough patches. We get to the smooth part quickly enough.