True, if I could learn to see it in a more light-hearted agree to disagree way, that might be okay. We are very good at listening to each other, but I'm afraid the dust won't settle after my grad school classes. Maybe it will, or maybe I will become an activist and try hard to keep up to date on that kind of knowledge. Which is kind of who I want to be. It might make sense to keep that separate from him though, but then again it's such an important part of me. :/ But he did say (without me even asking) he would be interested in volunteering with me to try it out. And he did say (again without my asking) he would be willing to read something interesting related to my school work if it was important to me. So he's clearly willing to hear my side and/or is seeing this may be important to me? I guess I should find a way to talk to him about it and maybe we can figure out how to make it work for us. But I agree it would be an awful lot to throw away. If he was completely conservative and against my ideas or not open to hearing them, I'd feel differently. Thanks for your input.