I have three deal-breakers. She has to compliment me at least twice a day, look at me 90% of the time and if she orders a sharing platter… does she even know me?! But what do you do if you find out that your partner, who is practically perfect in every other department, votes for a policy or party you find abhorrent? Do you sign a petition to end the relationship or still believe you’re #StrongerTogether? In these politically divided times, when we’re engaged in a messy divorce with Europe, Trump is getting faux pas and fake tan all over foreign policy, and Scotland’s threatening to ghost the UK, not only are diplomatic relations on rocky terrain, our love-lives are too.
I asked DIVA readers if they’d stay in a relationship where they disagreed on politics and 52% voted Leave. Sophie’s hot date turned into a hot mess when she discovered the object of her desire held wildly different opinions. “Her views were far to the right of mine. I thought about making a move on her anyway – it had been a while – but realised that I couldn’t have lived with myself if I did.” Damn morals, always getting in the way of a good time. Similarly, my friend Jen is such a die-hard Labourite, she wouldn’t even get to the first date stage with someone who wasn’t totally cray for J.