My feelings have changed for my sisters.

[Kath2]

13. Both.

I was raised Catholic and was married to a very strict conservative Catholic but a lot of my GFs were very liberal. I began thinking they made a lot more sense than he did in terms of social issues like choice and homosexuality. I began to notice his latent racism that I had either overlooked or just ignored. That irked me. Then he started really getting into Limbaugh and I just found that nauseating. I told him he was too smart for that. I guess the turning point was the Iraq war, that I was totally against. Some of my friends invited me to join them for the women's march on 4/25/04, just to experience it with them. I mentioned it to my husband and actually invited him to come. He completely lost it and told me I couldn't go. I was at a crossroads. I went and felt like I had bathed for the first time in years. I realized there were millions who were very public about thoughts I kept in private. We divorced over "irreconcilable differences" and I have never looked back. We still talk and I have some sweet memories of him. But we disagree on everything political.

I think I really was a "closet liberal" all along, but I was a go along to get along type of person. Better late than never.