Keeping it Together: Can a Democrat and Republican stay married?

He was a boy. She was a girl. Can we make it any more obvious?

Hi, my name is David Oliver, a Paste BN wellness reporter. I'm talking about Samantha and Andy Miller, a couple of St. Louis natives who caught each other's attention at a casino toward the end of 2009.

"It was just one of those things where we met and it was instant, and we were inseparable ever since," Samantha, 37, tells me. He proposed two years later, they got married and welcomed two kids, a now 7-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son.

Perfect. Except for one thing: She's a Democrat. He's a Republican.

Marriages across political lines are common enough, sure. But the 2016 election ignited a fire of political divisiveness that no one has figured out how to extinguish. The Millers, however, seem to make their marriage work anyway − most of the time.

Why? As cliché as it sounds, they've found that their love for each other and their family outweighs political tension, though many don't understand how that's possible.

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