Political Drama ... Or Not

Jason and I made it through our first Presidental election on opposite teams. One of us was for Obama and the other was for McCain. It made for a couple of pretty heated debates over the past couple of weeks that neither one of us ever won. We never actually talked about politics much before we got married and I guess I just assumed that he thought the same way I did. Ha ha... turns out, not so much.

Anyway, once Obama was declared the winner and McCain gave his concession speech it came very close to another heated argument. The great thing was, it didn't happen. There was some frustration and annoyance for a few minutes, but we let it go.

The thing that I realized as I went to sleep last night is that our marriage is more important than who becomes the next President of the United States. I mean, I know that's important too, but we're still going to be married no matter what happens and we have to deal with each other. In the end, I think we learned a great lesson. We don't always have to agree with each other. We can have different opinions and viewpoints, because ultimately we agree on the really important stuff and we've made a commitment to each other.

On a related note, I do wish that everybody would just shut-up about the election now that it's over. It seems like the fighting between the two sides just got worse once the results were in and now everybody is using their Facebook status to make passive-aggressive attacks at the other side. I defintely agree with some of them and disagree with others, but it's time to move on and face what's ahead of us instead of dwelling on what's already happened.