Well, good on you for making the effort. A lot of times with places like this, I’ll just continue to lurk until I run across a thread or conversation that I just can’t resist participating in. Hopefully, the same may happen with your wife at some point. I mean, sure, she can have you post on her behalf once in a while, but to fully participate in a thread, she’ll be far better off joining on her own.
Besides, how can she post all the secretive gossip about you that you never wanted anyone else to know if she has to ask you to say it for her?
There are tons of us. Just off the top of my head, couples who met here and have married:
Myself and Weirddave (we’ve got a baby)
MsRobyn and Airman Doors, USAF (they’ve got a toddler)
lno and elenfair (they have many dogs)
true pisces and Verrain (baby on the way)
bristlesage and Dynosaur (I don’t think either of them post anymore)
Sternvogel and I are a couple. He knew of the SD forever (even has some of Cecil’s books), and he mentioned interesting threads enough times to peak my interest. After lurking for a while I joined. I read it every other day or so, while Sternvogel practically lives here.
We rarely read the same threads as I’m a BBQ pit, parenting, pets, and breastfeeding type of person while he’s heavily into the games and wordplay side of things.
We both intend on entering the death pool, however.
Pepper Mill was briefly a member of this Board, but she hasn’t my interest in it (unless there’s a really good thread – but then she relies on me to tell her), and she stopped coming long before the user fee.
My daughter MilliCal has occasionally posted under my name.
One of the things that happens to couples is that one of them signs into the straight dope using their handle on the other person’s computer. Then when that second person posts without checking they make the first person appear to have a bad case of self-love.
Sorry about that - it’s Long Time First Time and Sternvogel, not Sternie with himself.
I’m actually of the opposite tendency. I don’t want my wife reading what I post here, in the sense that I would like to reserve the right to complain here, without fear of repercussion and/or animadversion, about her habit of THROWING THE BAND-AID WRAPPER ON THE COUNTER WHEN THERE’S A TRASH CAN TWO FEET AWAY. This is a purely hypothetical example, of course.
Well we found the SDMB at the same time, there is no chance of her ignoring the dope. It just I am very talkative and opinionated and she isn’t. My only saving grace is she rarely reads anything but GQ & Cafe.
My husband Demo and I were both posting somewhat frequently when we met through the SDMB.
We stopped checking the boards for awhile. I’ve been finding myself here everyday again since becoming a WoW widow this past year. I think he still checks the board every couple of months or so, though he rarely posts.
My boyfriend Cagey Drifter convinced me to join. I was super-skeptical about joining a board I would have to pay for–but now I use the boards way more than he does.
See, despite the fact that both Bonzer and myself will check the boards on each others’ computers, we’ve never managed to post under each others’ usenames (well, I almost did once, but I stopped myself), I suppose having two different computers, and not living with each other (yet – down to me needing to finish my PhD in Birmingham), helps on that front.
I dated another Doper, met through the boards; we broke up after a few months and after a short break I post regularly again and he posts about once a week though not in the same threads. That’s not deliberate or anything (at least on my part, don’t know about him as we don’t talk), we just have different interests on the Dope. It wasn’t a ‘nasty breakup’ per se but it wasn’t pleasant by any stretch.
While we were dating, I found that I didn’t like having someone on the boards that I was accountable to; also found that I used it to see if he’d been honest w/ me about times and such as we were long distance. That felt bad. That alone would prevent me from dating another active Doper. (Yes, I realize that failing is mine but it just sort of happened.)
Drachillix lured me into his bedroom with the SDMB.
He made me a nice dinner and wanted to show me a cool site, just read those sig lines, isn’t this an interesting thread?
I joined soon after, we are both charter members now and SDMB is on the toolbars of both our computers.
available light is my wife, although we didn’t meet here. Instead, we both met the same dude on a BBS and ended up going to a D&D game at his house. It was geek love at first random encounter.
