# Dope Divorces **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046 "2008-11-22T22:54:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/1 "2008-11-22T22:54:21Z")
People have met here first and then married. Life being what it is, some of these couples must have divorced. So, who got custody of the Dope, and how? Or why? (I’m sure there must be lots of incidences that everyone else knows all about, but I am hopeless with gossip) ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/2 "2008-11-23T03:52:29Z")
The one Doper couple I know who met through here that have divorced, both sort of left the boards. I suppose neither of them got custody, since they left the boards before they divorced. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/3 "2008-11-23T03:59:13Z")
I think the only Doper couple I know left the boards before they got divorced. I could ask her tomorrow when I talk to her but she probably doesn’t want all that info out here. ETA: Gingy, are we talking about the same people? I get a feeling we are… ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/4 "2008-11-23T04:30:24Z")
Yep! PS: You’re a big bumface, since you know my husband and I. We met through here. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/5 "2008-11-23T06:06:06Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > I think the only Doper couple I know left the boards before they got divorced. I could ask her tomorrow when I talk to her but she probably doesn’t want all that info out here. I wouldn’t want to pry into someone’s personal matters. I was just wondering about how people might have worked it out. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/6 "2008-11-23T06:17:20Z")
Gingy?!?! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/7 "2008-11-23T06:23:42Z")
Though they didn’t meet here, I know we’ve had a few couples who kept posting here after they divorced. If both people are mature enough to avoid posting things to provoke or hurt the other person, then I don’t see why they can’t both stay here. It is a large enough site that you can avoid interacting with someone if you don’t want to and still have things to read from other people. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/8 "2008-11-23T13:51:45Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Gingy?!?! :rolleyes: What? That’s the name I use on Live Journal. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/9 "2008-11-23T17:06:05Z")
My husband posted here very shortly under the name FunLvnCriminal. When we divorced I kept the Dope. I had been here longer and cared to keep it more. For all I know he still lurks but I doubt it. We did not meet here, however. I brought him to the Dope so it only made sense I got to keep it. Through all of my childish anger I did actually manage to keep it off the board. So that’s a little personal feather in my cap, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/10 "2008-11-24T22:24:44Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Yep! > PS: You’re a big bumface, since you know my husband and I. We met through here. Oh yeah, :smack: o’course.(_finds "Brainwash **Gingy’s** children on his to-do list and highlights it_) Then again I knew **SqrlCub** and… damn if I can remember his user name now… from the Dope before I met them; don’t remember if **RTF** ’s wife is a Doper or not. So obviously I know more than one Doper couple. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/11 "2008-11-24T22:42:46Z")
My ex-wife posted here briefly, years ago, but it was never a regular haunt for her like it is for me. We never discussed it officially, but before we split up I told her I’d be returning here in search of something like a support network (I’d been away from the Dope for a couple of years). ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dope-divorces/474046/12 "2008-11-25T03:09:05Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > Oh yeah, :smack: o’course.(_finds "Brainwash **Gingy’s** children on his to-do list and highlights it_) Then again I knew **SqrlCub** and… damn if I can remember his user name now… from the Dope before I met them; don’t remember if **RTF** ’s wife is a Doper or not. So obviously I know more than one Doper couple. dcnewsman, and no Mrs. RTF is not a doper. Unless she’s in stealth mode.