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We are both Buddhist and discuss and agree on politics, usually, but, both are individual free adults.

It's pretty simple. She's right and I'm wrong.

Religion - I'm a practicing Catholic and she is a very lapse Lutheran.

Political - on the same page, if anything she's a bit to the right of me but only by fractions of an inch. Our relationship is loving and tight.

She's normally more Liberal until the bill comes. Then she conservatives up.

I'm more conservative on some issues by a degree or so, both of us equally non-religious, and no effect on relationship. We are both the type of people who are comfortable with grey, don't deal in absolutes, and naturally work toward common ground. She is generally disinterested in politics as well, except if you bring up social wedge issues. We are more apt to argue over how to properly load a dishwasher, or where things should be kept in the fridge, before we would argue something across a political divide.

Religiously we're the same, meaning not much. I read about religions to understand them, and like to visit various temples etc just to see how they are.

Politically we were both somewhat left when we met in Ann Arbor, probably because Ann Arbor is a bit like Berkeley, but have both shifted right a bit over time. Though I've moved further.

In social gatherings, wife worries that I'd make fun of religion. That makes it completely irresistible. A neighbor is very proud that he teaches in Sunday school. I asked him with a serous and puzzled expression why it is called school, since what is being taught there is mis-education. Perhaps anti-school is a better term?

She's raised catholic, I was raised Lutheran. We attend a non denominational, biblically and politically conservative church.

She has moved right since I met her...her entire family is Democrat except for her first cousin who is Hispanic, married to a black woman, and has a lesbian daughter and is to the right of literally everyone on this site except maybe the original banker. Maybe. No I'm not joking.

Seriously she is realizing she's a moderate Republican, although she says there's no way in hell she'll vote for Trump and thinks he's a buffoon(she won't vote for Hillary either and thinks she's the second coming of the wicked witch). If the Republican nominee had been Chris Christie or Marco Rubio I think my wife would have voted for them, and if it was Ted Cruz I think she would have pinched her nose and voted for him.

My wife & I are both ASSHOLES!

Both raised devout Mormon and left the religion in our early 30s...now she's atheist and I'm agnostic (i.e., I don't know what the hell to believe).

Both were conservative right, she moved socially left and then I slowly followed. We're both fiscally center-right but support environmentalism and being "green", but not fanatic.