You promised to love and cherish until death do you part— but does “for better or worse” include an increasing diversion of political views?

With the country increasingly polarized over vaccines, abortion rights, climate change, gun control, immigration, and the economy, much has been said about maintaining harmony at the Thanksgiving table. But what happens when partisan tensions spill into the bedroom of a marriage?

A friend recently sought my advice about how to navigate her husband’s increasingly extreme ideological views. She tried to address the problem with a bandaid by blocking him from seeing her activist social media posts. She said, “I explained to him I shouldn’t fear an argument will arise for doing something I feel is important. I just want to do my part to educate people.”

When political differences begin to define a marriage, how do couples avoid the landmines inherent in determining which news channels to watch and commenting on........

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