According, I’ll share some thoughts with you. I’ve been married to the same woman for almost 30 years and we’ve been through many relationship challenges.
My first thought: It’s hard to reconcile a real Christian walk with voting Democratic in this day and age, plain and simple, and this is an issue I believe should be resolved completely before marriage. If you two talk about your Christian faith—I think all couples should!—what does she say about reconciling her faith with such vehemently anti-Christian politics? That said, it’s true enough that you’d probably have a hard time finding more than a handful of politicians who truly walk the Christian walk. In light of this, I think we must vote for those who at least share principles that are COMPATIBLE with Christianity. Liberalism is not.
If you can get past the above, I STRONGLY urge the two of you to complete a survey that identifies your primary spiritual gift. This is something my wife and I have done recently, and I cannot tell you what a huge difference it has made in really understanding each other, even after so many years of marriage. I’m a Prophet and she’s a Mercy. As a Christian psychologist said, if a non-Mercy has ten emotional antennae, a Mercy (especially a Mercy woman) has ten THOUSAND emotional antennae, BY GOD’S DESIGN. I share this because while my wife does keep up on current events via me, she too is unable to watch politics on a regular basis. A Mercy just feels things with infinitely more intensity than you or I, and the pain of watching our country decline into full Godlessness is too intense for her. Your girlfriend could be a Mercy, and I urge you to find out. Once you find out what your partner is, you can spend a half-hour reading and have SO much more understanding about how they perceive things, why they do or don’t do certain things, etc. You can also learn a lot about compatibility between the different types. (For example, Mercy women are attracted to Prophet men, and according to a very experienced Christian counselor I talked to, fully 60% of his practice is dealing with this combination.)
I urge you to research these issues, and I applaud you for trying to figure out these things NOW instead of after you’re married.
MM
I’d prefer to say the gift of “mercy” is the gift of compassion, as mercy can have other connotations that are encouraged of all for those whom deserve forbearance (forgiveness of punishment for an actual wrong done to the offended person).
interesting! where did you find this survey?