Then no, I stand by the initial statement: I think politics affects the external policy of a sincere loving relationship - not the MECHANICS. I speak from personal experience, having lead my relationship undernearly constant external political duress (except when we were back home in the Bronx, where literally nobody gave a fuck). It has effected us insofar as we muist carefully choose where we live, which can in turn loop into INTERNAL stress, as neither one of us are happy, but... that's the second paragraph of my thesis.