Can I Get Over This? Should I?
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Well, here we are: my girlfriend voted for Trump because her (military, 'centrist republican') family somehow convinced her that this man is going to fix inflation and the economy. We’ve been together three years and moved in together last year. She lost her job a few months ago and her parents have been helping her out financially, and it seems like that's made her more receptive to their rhetoric? Or maybe it's just guilt? I don't know but like, she could’ve just told them that she voted for him and not actually done it???
I truly believe that we have shared values, which makes this even more confounding. It feels like she’s abandoned those values —and so us —by doing this. She's said it felt like a gamble...