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Politics is a bigger factor in couples deciding not to marry - according to experts. Young women are drifting to the left and young men are trending to the right. The differences may be enough to keep them apart and unmarried.
Marriage has been trending lower for the past 50 years - for various reasons. Now, some experts think politics provides yet another challenge to young couples getting together and tying the knot.
Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and author of the book Get Married says that couples with strong and opposed feelings about political issues should consider not marrying. He sees that political beliefs are not unlike values and that material differences can be problematic. There are younger couples who are sufficiently apathetic about politics to not realize that they actually significant differences in their personal politics.
Natalie Gregg, attorney in Allen, Texas says that she sees young couples that are not necessarily focused on differences in their political beliefs and that in some cases, "Love is Blind".