{"id":291893,"date":"2017-02-07T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291893"},"modified":"2017-02-07T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:35:00","slug":"couple-calls-it-quits-over-trump-wounds-still-raw-after-bitter-u-s-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/couple-calls-it-quits-over-trump-wounds-still-raw-after-bitter-u-s-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple calls it quits over Trump – Wounds still raw after bitter U.S. election"},"content":{"rendered":"
Burning passions over Donald Trump’s presidency are taking a personal toll on both sides of the political divide. For Gayle McCormick, it is particularly wrenching: she has separated from her husband of 22 years.<\/p>\n
The retired California prison guard, a self-described “Democrat leaning toward socialist,” was stunned when her husband casually mentioned during a lunch with friends last year that he planned to vote for Trump \u2013 a revelation she described as a “deal breaker.”<\/p>\n
“It totally undid me that he could vote for Trump,” said McCormick, 73, who had not thought of leaving the conservative Republican before but felt “betrayed” by his support for Trump.<\/p>\n
“I felt like I had been fooling myself,” she said. “It opened up areas between us I had not faced before. I realized how far I had gone in my life to accept things I would have never accepted when I was younger.”<\/p>\n
Three months after the most divisive election in modern U.S. politics fractured families and upended relationships, a number of Americans say the emotional wounds are as raw as ever and show few signs of healing.<\/p>\n
The rancour has not dissipated as it has in the aftermath of other recent contentious U.S. elections. A Reuters\/Ipsos opinion poll shows it has worsened, suggesting a widening of the gulf between Republicans and Democrats and a hardening of ideological positions that sociologists and political scientists say increases distrust in government and will make political compromise more difficult.<\/p>\n
The Reuters\/Ipsos poll of 6,426 people, taken from Dec. 27 to Jan. 18, shows the number of respondents who argued with family and friends over politics jumped 6 percentage points from a pre-election poll at the height of the campaign in October, up to 39 percent from 33 percent. (See graphic: tmsnrt.rs\/2jLSU36<\/a>)<\/p>\n