Quote Originally Posted by Lorileah View Post
I am still having a hard time understanding how two people can be married, live together, theoretically speak to each other for 10, 20, 30 years and not know how the opposite feels about some things. You know they don't like strawberries or they don't like rainy days or they don't like cats, but you didn't know they had such a reaction to men in dresses?
Exactly. This is a question I've raised on this forum before. If I'd started dating and my date had expressed homophobic or racist opinions, I'm afraid that would've been the end of the relationship. I would not have gone on to marry that person.

Also, after all those years of marriage and sharing a life, don't differences of opinion stimulate lively debate and opportunities to broaden horizons?