When I started dating my girlfriend, it was rocky at first. She was really misinformed on a lot of stuff regarding communism, and to be honest, I hadn’t made a serious commitment despite calling myself one for years. She helped improve my views on certain topics I had bad takes on, and I did the same with her. Idk if she’d call herself a ML, but she’s pretty damn close, and I’m a better communist overall in large part because of what she helped me understand. We have great political discourse now.

TLDR: I did, but now she’s communist too :)