A HOUSE DIVIDED: INTERPOLITICAL COUPLES ACROSS ADULTHOOD AND THEIR CO-CHANGE IN POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS Hyewon Yang1, Gabriel Olaru , Rebekka Weidmann, Mark Brandt , Shree Vallabha , and Abigail Cassario Many studies demonstrate assortative mating in political orientation in romantic relationships, but the long-term relationship dynamics of politically heterogeneous couples remain underexplored. To better understand how partners with different political standings change over time, we examined interpolitical couple members’ political orientation trajectories and their co-change over 14 to 24 years using three large panel data from the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany (Ninterpolitical couples = 3,980; age range 14-93). Growth curve models showed that the dissimilarity between partners decreased over time. Specifically, the relatively left-wing individuals within each couple generally moved right, whereas the relatively right-wing partners moved left (i.e., a convergence effect)....