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Could you share with him how it makes you feel when you fight over these things? Could that maybe lead to you both agreeing to just disagree on political issues? You want to enjoy each other while you can, you're absolutely right that life is too short and as long as you're both free to have your own opinions maybe ask that he talks politics with friends or other people in his life and agree to both make the effort to stick to other topics?

It depends on how old the two of you are. If he's old enough to vote, it is your responsibility to be respectful of his intelligence and his responsibility to respectful of yours. Your profile picture doesn't make me think that you are old enough to be a parent of a voter. If that is indeed the case, block the kid's access to television and internet. It's your money, your house, your rules. Yes, I know. That's conservative thinking.

I live with a happily birth-assigned female wife and two adult happily birth-assigned female daughters. I am a happily birth-assigned cis-gendered male. Those two sentences alone explain what the social stress is all about. Am I really going to have to explain "me and 3 gals" for the rest of my life? Anyway. My wife and one of my resident daughters voted to the right of me 2+ years ago and one voted to the left of me. There's no need to fight over it. Each of us, individually, don't matter even at the precinct level.

How old is he? That will determine what my suggestions would be.

My son is 27 and he and I have differing political views but we talk about them and try to learn from each other. He doesn't believe he is right and neither do I. I think age a maturity play a large factor here.

There are some topics that are just too charged and sensitive to talk about with certain people and politics is one of them. Best to change the subject like many have said.

meastman77 wrote: »

Anyone have any advice on how I can better my relationship with my son? We had differing views on political issues. He has conservative views and I tend to be liberal. Although I try to avoid certain subjects, somehow something comes up and we disagree and end up fighting. I think that he likes to pick fights with me. All this is very hurtful and heartbreaking. I really want to get along with him. Life is short and I don't want to go through it fighting with him!
Any advice would be appreciated!

Tough call because you want your kids to have more black and white in life than gray area, but you also want the black and white to be based on critical thinking where most political views are not. Depending on how open a person they are, you can try to appeal to reason and discussion, having them question and test their own views for truth.