# I'm officially off the market! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 18, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109 "2000-04-18T00:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109/21 "2000-04-18T14:44:00Z")
Here’s to true love and happily ever afters. Congratulations, Ruffian! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109/22 "2000-04-19T05:19:00Z")
Ruffian, that’s a wonderful proposal! I wish the both of you the best of happiness. Your fiance was very creative in his proposal also and went to a lot of trouble. I don’t suppose you are also getting married on 5 August, are you? Care for a joint ceremony? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109/23 "2000-04-18T21:39:00Z")
Ruff, babe! _sniffling and remorseful_ Congrats sweetheart, you don’t need to stress about it. I’m thrilled for you, not that I’ll stop flirting ;). Anyways, I’m glad everything is going as planned, and look forward to chatting with your new chipper self. I’d like to wish you and your fiance (love that word don’t you ;)) a beautiful engagement, and a long happy life together. Keep us informed on all the mushy details. _To himself_ Sonofabitch, all the wonderful girls are taken… ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109/24 "2000-04-18T21:56:00Z")
Damn, another one off my list 😉 He went to a lot of effort (and quite right too) so that’s a good sign. All the best! IB * * * The Scots - never trust a race whose national dress includes a concealed knife. ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109/25 "2000-04-18T22:34:00Z")
Congrats, Ruffian, that sounds like a really sweet proposal. Best of lick to the two of you. * * * “There are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.” – Dr. Morgenes, _The Dragonbone Chair_ ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109/26 "2000-04-18T22:39:00Z")
Congratulations! What a romantic guy – which is always a plus. 🙂 Many happy years of happiness to you both. * * * Jodi _Fiat Justitia_ ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109/27 "2000-04-18T22:56:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Nightingale: > Congrats, Ruffian, that sounds like a really sweet proposal. Best of **lick** to the two of you. Are **all** mistakes really Freudian? ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109/28 "2000-04-18T23:41:00Z")
Congratulations! Everything Drain Bead said about the ring is true. You’ll also stop calling your fiance by name when talking about him to others. You’ll constantly be saying, “My _fiance_ blah blah…” It’s the same thing after you get married. We picked out the rings a few weeks before the wedding. I kept taking mine out and trying it on. And, I still have not tired of saying “My _husband_ yadda, yadda…” I just love calling him that. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-officially-off-the-market/16109.md?page=1)