We've been together for a little over six months and everything was going great! Like, I've never been so in love. Relationships were always hard for me so I always thought I struck gold with this one. Great compatibility in everything. Very similar personality types. She's drop dead gorgeous and we're very aligned politically.
And then we watched a documentary about space together and they mention the moon landing and she says "yeah right that never happened!" I laughed obviously thinking it's a joke but then we were discussing what we'd watched she repeats that. I ask her if she's serious and she goes "I'm not claiming to have all the facts but it's a very contested debate" and I go contested by who? Exactly? Which reputable scientist says this? And she says she watched a documentary about it in high school and that there's many reasons why it could all be a hoax.
Apparently her full view is she's not 100% convinced that the moon landing was a hoax, that the most likely option is that it wasn't one, but that she still considers it a plausible possibility because it would have been very convenient for the US to do politically at the time given the Cold War.
I just... don't know what to do. The only similar instance of this was when we were talking about covid and it was the time when even people like Fauci were like "we'll investigate China to see if covid came out of a lab" and she mentioned the possibility of it having come out of a lab by accident which I think is dumb but important people were saying the exact same thing so it didn't look as crazy. But the moon thing? I just can't deal with it.
She got so offended when I made the comparison to anti-vaxxers and flat earthers too! (As any rational person would) But literally all those conspiracies are believed by very similar types of people and are all based on the same flimsy cherry-picked science.
I don't know what to do. I don't know if this is a deal breaker or just something I'll just have to agree to disagree on. I just know it disturbs me a lot. With any new relationship, I was prepared to deal with religious or political differences but literally not this? It's always seemed the kind of incredibly far out thing only real nut cases and fanatical people would believe. And she's never seemed fanatical about anything.
I'm still very much in love with her, she makes me so so so happy and we have plans together down the line, but I'm not sure how to reconcile the rest of our amazing relationship with the fact that she doubts we went to the moon. I'm really not sure.
I would appreciate any advice with dealing with a partner with crazy beliefs.
TL;DR: My girlfriend kind of believes the moon landing was fake and that's something that very much disturbs me and don't know how to deal with since otherwise the relationship is going pretty well.
Submitted November 03, 2021 at 04:06PM by pinkhellsbian https://ift.tt/3GQsSV7
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