Authenticity

[BeTheChange]

Do you think it's possible to live a truly authentic life if your partner has a fundamentally different positions on any or all of the following:

• Politics
• Fairness as it pertains to redistribution of wealth, opportunity and outcome
• Religion and the existence of God
• Morality and what it means to be "good"
• Society
• Family and raising children
• The role of men and women

Feel free to add other things to this list. It's important not to surround oneself with people who think exactly like you. Ideas should be challenged and living within an echo chamber only creates an environment where growth is stilted. However I'm pondering whether there is a line. Yes it might be unrealitic or even undesirable to find a partner who agrees with you in everything but similarly can one have both harmony and live an authentic life without choosing a partner who mirrors their world view?