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Pico and ME · 01-17-2010, 08:48 AM

Juni, I think you are in for a bumpy ride here. You are on the path to enlightenment with the degree you are pursuing - education always opens the mind and lights up the dark stuff. Your husband isn't. How your relationship progresses from now on will be entirely up to you and what you are willing to endure. If you have a lot of patience, then Griff's suggestion is golden, but keep in mind, because your husband has already set up a certain pattern of dominance over you, it will be a long haul.

Elspode · 01-17-2010, 12:19 PM

It is my experience that overt bigotry or Conservatism often has an underpinning of either emotional trauma, spiritual brainwashing, or both. Unfortunately, the only treatment for those things is an open mind. I wish you the best. I fear that the divisiveness in our world is going to increase before it lessens, and so the stress between you two may pose a greater challenge in the coming months and years. Keep you head about you at all times, and remember that, as long as one of you is rational and balanced, and loves the other person, there's always hope.

TheMercenary · 01-17-2010, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

It is my experience that overt bigotry or Conservatism often has an underpinning of either emotional trauma, spiritual brainwashing, or both.

WTF? You think those things are related and of the same route causes?

Elspode · 01-17-2010, 01:52 PM

*Overt*, as in over the top. I'm not saying you have to be traumatized to be a Conservative. I'm fairly politically conservative myself, by the old school definition - not by this newfangled religious fanaticism metric.

01-17-2010, 12:19 PM	#2
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	It is my experience that overt bigotry or Conservatism often has an underpinning of either emotional trauma, spiritual brainwashing, or both. Unfortunately, the only treatment for those things is an open mind. I wish you the best. I fear that the divisiveness in our world is going to increase before it lessens, and so the stress between you two may pose a greater challenge in the coming months and years. Keep you head about you at all times, and remember that, as long as one of you is rational and balanced, and loves the other person, there's always hope. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

01-17-2010, 01:52 PM	#4
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Overt, as in over the top. I'm not saying you have to be traumatized to be a Conservative. I'm fairly politically conservative myself, by the old school definition - not by this newfangled religious fanaticism metric. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

01-17-2010, 08:48 AM	#1
Pico and ME Are you knock-kneed? Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Middle Hoosierland Posts: 3,549	Juni, I think you are in for a bumpy ride here. You are on the path to enlightenment with the degree you are pursuing - education always opens the mind and lights up the dark stuff. Your husband isn't. How your relationship progresses from now on will be entirely up to you and what you are willing to endure. If you have a lot of patience, then Griff's suggestion is golden, but keep in mind, because your husband has already set up a certain pattern of dominance over you, it will be a long haul.

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