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Dear Richard Madeley: 'My husband’s views on Brexit and climate change are killing off our sex life'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/...husbands-views-brexit-climate-change-killing/
“Dear Richard
My husband and I are in our late 50s and have always seen more or less eye to eye on political matters. But in the past couple of years we have diverged sharply on two issues: Brexit, and the environment.
My other half, a teacher and head of year, has become almost deranged. He feels so passionately that leaving the EU is a mistake, he becomes incoherent when he talks about it. It’s the same with climate change. He took a day off work (without the headmaster’s permission) to join an Extinction Rebellion roadblock. I glimpsed him on TV, chanting, almost unrecognisable as the man I’ve been married to for nearly 20 years.
I voted Leave but I would be perfectly comfortable if we’d voted to stay in Europe. I can see climate change must be addressed, but I don’t believe in occupying bridges. When I say this to my husband, he gets in a state.
I could just about tolerate that, but here’s the real problem, Richard. He keeps bursting into tears when we discuss either subject, especially when other people are present. I think he thinks it adds weight to his arguments. He snuffles his apologies and says things like “I’m sorry, but I just feel SO strongly about this…”
It’s driving me mad. I want to clip him around the ear and tell him to man up. Worse, it’s completely destroying my desire for him. I know this sounds old-fashioned but I think men who keep blubbing are a total turn-off. I’ve taken to making excuses to come to bed late or to sleep in the spare room. He’s started to notice but I don’t know what to tell him. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
Suzanne, Herts

Dear Suzanne
With my TV hat on, I’ve interviewed both eco-warriors and Remainers recently and experienced exactly what you describe – a strange lachrymosity as some of them get into their stride that I’ve never encountered in campaigners over other important issues (and I’ve been a working reporter since 1972). If I’m honest, their weepy displays annoy me too. Bursting into tears is no substitute for reasoned, intelligent argument.
It’s definitely a recent phenomenon. Only this summer a defendant – a professional man, like your husband – up on charges connected with eco-protests starting sobbing with emotion in front of magistrates in court. He had to be given time to compose himself. I think he was fortunate not to be sent down for a bracing couple of hours in the cells.
So it seems your husband is caught up in a wider emotional tide that’s flowing specifically on environmental and anti-Brexit issues.
If you find that a turn-off, you find it a turn-off. No one can re-programme your sexual responses for you, Suzanne. So I think you need to sit your husband down and tell him the truth. Explain that the sight of him welling up as he argues for Remain or on behalf of the planet is shrivelling your desire for him. Make it clear that it’s nothing to do with the actual opinions he holds; it’s the trembling lower lip, throaty gasps and tear-filled eyes that are the passion killers. Don’t feel guilty about this. As I say, our sexual responses are hard-wired. We have little control over them.
But there are ways to stop crying. A good, hard, self-administered pinch to the thigh is a tried and trusted technique, as I’ve said on this page before. Tell him to try that. Or get used to sleeping alone.”

Typical crazed leftie

 

It's made up ****, you dumb ****.

 

Not a great result today mate

 

We've been **** since the end of January. People haven't noticed until recently, for some reason.

 

2 goals for young Aaron Connolly, 19 year old Irish lad. We desperately need a striker so fingers crossed he cuts the mustard.

 

Getting to a Champions League final took a lot of the attention.

 

Rubbish, Suzanne is your ex.

 

You give domintrixes money to tell you how to spend yours. Shh.

 

January 1968

 

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The Klan were the height of fashion, apparently.

 

Crazed lying leftie bursts into tears whenever he think's about brexit and climate change.

 

Dumb fat bloke believes Torygraph propaganda in an agony aunt column from Alan Partridge.
Also pays money to financial dominatrix and stalks teens on twitter.

 

Obsessively crazed lying leftie hates his life and resorts to lies to make himself feel less inadequate but he knows his life is empty.

 

There are screenshots

 

Which part was a lie, Pete? Get back to me when your owner lets you post again, eh?

 

Are you not a morbidly obese right wing pervert who lives in a garage, after all then?

 

All of what you said was lies. You are a compulsive liar.
You hate that you are sat at home alone and people avoid you because you are pathetic.
Your only chance to "interact" is via the internet.

 

Get back in your box ...

You disgust me

 

You outed yourself, Pete. The windmilling from some to justify your perversions was a pleasant bonus.