Can this relationship work?

As long as you don't regularly discuss politics, yes. You also both have to be respectful when it does inevitably come up.

The key to making this work is for both of you to understand that there are opposing viewpoints and its OK for another person to be a good person and have the opposing viewpoints.

More than that: That its people who have opposing viewpoints are able to discuss the issue and seek a compromise to find a way to move forward together are the people who move this country ahead.

I wish the two of you the best,

Any relationship CAN work, as long as you don't try and change/fix each other. People are often very tribal and people are so often politically and religiously divided between pure cardio and pure lifting these days.

It won't be easy, but with the respecting of each other's boundaries you can have a healthy relationship even with such radically different exercise values.

It depends on how well they respect each other's boundaries and how willing they are to compromise with each other on their life choices or find ways of making those choices separately. And on whether they are happy working as a team with someone who stands against so many values that they stand for. Could you spend your whole life with someone if it entailed some degree of cognitive dissonance throughout the relationship because they actively fight against everything you're fighting for, and you're effectively supporting each other in doing so by living together?

All this would take an immense amount of emotional maturity and both partners would have to be very emotionally healthy people.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems to me that the same people who had the emotional maturity to make it work, might also have the emotional maturity to cut their future losses the moment they find themselves at risk of 'catching feelings'.

Can it work? Sure but I believe it will be hard and you will have to work at it at least for the first few years until certain things become habits.

Not trying to force your views on each other or getting in arguments and being judgemental of friends.

Sounds as if you may spend a lot of time apart from each other which can cause issues. If you go to concerts, restaurants, rallies, church, and other events but not with each other.

It will be a challenge but can it work sure! Good luck.

My boyfriend and I are pretty different. It hasn't stopped us from having fun together. As long as you're both respectful to each other, understand that you're different, and know not to try to force the other to change their stance on certain things, you two will be fine.

People can make relationships work even though they disagree on some things. Often, the way they deal with this is by just agreeing that they won't discuss some issues since they are matters of gut-feelings and opinions, and both people are so deeply invested that there is nothing anyone could ever say that would change their mind.

There are obviously several points of potential conflict between you two, but how important they are depends on how strongly you each feel about them and if you're willing to work on finding an agreed compromise.

For instance, on the matter of meat versus vegetarian, are you willing to accept that you're never going to eat a shared meal with her that includes meat, and is she willing to accept that you will satisfy your carnivorous urges when you have a meal when she's not around? If, deep down, you feel that vegetarianism is stupid and contrary to nature and you have fundamental problems respecting vegetarians, then you've got problems. Likewise if she strongly believes that meat is murder, the way you smell after eating meat makes her want to heave, and she believes that meat-eaters are barely one step up from cavemen.

With regard to alcohol, if your definition of a good time is getting falling-down shitfaced and she thinks drunks are revolting and anyone who likes alcohol is depraved, you've got problems. On the other hand, if you drink in moderation, the effect on you of alcohol is to relax your inhibitions and make you a little silly, she finds that amusing and you don't mind her staying sober, you might be okay on this point.

As for the Christian/atheist thing, lots of people call themselves Christians, but that covers a wide range of beliefs and behaviour patterns. If she believes anyone who doesn't believe as she does is going to burn in hell forever, the most important thing she can do with her life is to bring sinful unbelievers to Jesus, she spends hours in church every week, virtually every one of her friends are people she met in church, and she mentions Jesus, sin and following God's plan for her several times every day, then most atheists would find this world-view very challenging to accept and respect. If she's a Christian in the sense that she grew up in a religion, she's never really given much thought to the tenets of that religion, and she only calls herself a Christian when filling in a form with a box for that, then maybe this is something you can just never talk about.

It could sorta work if they respect each others belief though I would imagine they'd disagree with them.

Both of you are hopeless and should be together

fish is meat

Me and my wife are the complete opposite. The only thing we agree on or see the same is politics. But hobbies and personality and such are completely different and we have been together now a long time.

Sounds like you've got a good girl there, g