# :-D ivorce!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617 "2009-07-28T23:55:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/1 "2009-07-28T23:55:30Z")
For all you guys out there potentially facing divorce, this is what it feels like afterwards. [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7156212607541959068](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7156212607541959068) ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/2 "2009-07-29T01:31:40Z")
I’m just waiting on the soon to be ex to return the signed paperwork to my attorney so it can be filed. 90 days later and I will be single again. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/3 "2009-07-29T01:35:48Z")
My ex called me up a few weeks ago to bitch a complain something that he was trying to drag me into with wife #4 (that he is now getting divorced from). My response to him: “That’s the beauty of divorce. I just don’t give a fuck.” Congratulations to you both! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/4 "2009-07-29T01:56:43Z")
Wow. It took me a few minutes to get it. I was waiting for scenes of a nuclear explosion, death, destruction, all-around misery. You guys must be the ones who WANTED the divorces. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/5 "2009-07-29T01:59:25Z")
I laughed and laughed. Congrats to you. Yo ho ho, it’s the single life for me! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/6 "2009-07-29T02:11:10Z")
I felt that way when I finally got him out of the house. Single life ain’t exactly glamorous (which was expected), but I’ll take the troubles I have now compared to the ones he was constantly creating. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/7 "2009-07-29T02:17:37Z")
OP, _Almost_. If we could get Al on crutches and with a few nasty but non-lethal wounds it’d be spot-on. [QUOTE=kittenblue] You guys must be the ones who WANTED the divorces. [/QUOTE] As I see it, divorce is like having a root canal. Nobody wants one until they need one. And the pain of the fix is totally worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/8 "2009-07-29T02:28:54Z")
I really hope that my soon-to-be-ex-husband isn’t feeling that way. If I have to feel like crap, he should be feeling like crap for doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/9 "2009-07-29T07:51:22Z")
I knew two guys who had been divorced three times before age 35. That shit would have \*\*killed \*\*me. ---
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/10 "2009-07-29T16:52:43Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > I knew two guys who had been divorced three times before age 35. > > That shit would have \*\*killed \*\*me. agreed. I can’t imagine wanting to do it again unless I needed to make sure someone knew to pull the plug, and there’s easier paperwork to fill out for that one. What possessed them? ---
**Author:** ![TGWATY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TGWATY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TGWATY)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/11 "2009-07-29T18:17:17Z")
There were times when fighting my wife would say something to the effect that I’d never be able to get a better wife than her. No matter how angry I was, that always deflated it and made me chuckle, “Another woman? Are you kidding? You’re my _last_ wife.” She only said it a few times. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/12 "2009-07-29T18:31:07Z")
> [@miamouse](#): > > I felt that way when I finally got him out of the house. Single life ain’t exactly glamorous (which was expected), but I’ll take the troubles I have now compared to the ones he was constantly creating. I know exactly how you feel. > [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > I knew two guys who had been divorced three times before age 35. > > That shit would have \*\*killed \*\*me. I recently dated a guy who had been divorced \*\*\*four \*\*\*times by age 40! ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/13 "2009-07-30T06:16:22Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > I recently dated a guy who had been divorced \*\*\*four \*\*\*times by age 40! :eek: I hope you didn’t date him more than once. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/14 "2009-07-30T08:33:28Z")
My parents divorce was prolly the single biggest influence on me growing up. It was awful to find out they were splitting up, awful to find out that my father didn’t care much for me and/or my sister, and devastating to find out that so much of what my parents told me for the first 10 years of my life was lies. But I did learn one thing that has helped me in my own life: Yer better off alone than being miserable with some asshole. Grats to you on your new life! ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/15 "2009-07-30T15:25:50Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > My parents divorce was prolly the single biggest influence on me growing up. It was awful to find out they were splitting up, awful to find out that my father didn’t care much for me and/or my sister, and devastating to find out that so much of what my parents told me for the first 10 years of my life was lies. I like to think my kids didn’t take this message away from my divorce. That the kids weren’t the problem was about the only thing their mom and I ever agreed on consistently. > [@](#): > > But I did learn one thing that has helped me in my own life: Yer better off alone than being miserable with some asshole. But this. This I hope they understand. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/16 "2009-07-30T16:13:17Z")
I thought you were going to show the video of [THIS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxFB5RDmBIA). Which is of course a parody of [THIS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs) (david after the dentist). Watch this first if you haven’t seen it. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/17 "2009-07-31T00:47:17Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > :eek: I hope you didn’t date him more than once. :eek: :smack: Yeah, I did. In my defense, I only knew about his most recent divorce. He conveniently didn’t tell me about the first three until we’d been together for about 6 months. I was pretty freaked out, but was somewhat emotionally invested by that time. We’re not together anymore, and when it was over, there was this little voice in my head that kept saying, “No wonder four wives dumped him!” I should add that at no time was I considering marrying him. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/18 "2009-07-31T04:06:44Z")
A friend of mine from high school is in the process of her second divorce. She just turned 29. Meanwhile, I haven’t been married. I just don’t see the point. I don’t know anyone in my age group who has been married, and is still married to the first person. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/19 "2009-07-31T14:13:15Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > A friend of mine from high school is in the process of her second divorce. She just turned 29. > Meanwhile, I haven’t been married. I just don’t see the point. I don’t know anyone in my age group who has been married, and is still married to the first person. Wow. Well, I’m in my forties and still married to to the first person I married. In my circle of friends, only one is divorced (a couple are in second marriages after being widowed). I guess it’s who you know. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617/20 "2009-07-31T14:20:18Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Wow. > > Well, I’m in my forties and still married to to the first person I married. In my circle of friends, only one is divorced (a couple are in second marriages after being widowed). > > I guess it’s who you know. Same. I’m in my forties, still happily married to my wife; in my immediate friends and family, only one has been divorced. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-ivorce/504617.md?page=2)