My SO was interested briefly and even signed up before it went to P2P. Then, like with most things, he got bored and mostly just teases me for spending so much time on the Dope.
Heh, no.
Nonononononono.
We’re sort of “off-again” right now because we’re living way too far apart for a proper relationship… but even now… it’s nice to be able to have a certain degree of freedom in what you can say here.
My husband has no interest whatsoever in joining or reading these boards. Yay for me!
My partner recently joined. If you get a chance, say hi to Litespeed. 
She lurked for a while, but then again, I’m still lurking, mostly.
My husband is Sam Stone. You’ll hear little from me.
Here’s hoping your SO is a dog.
My wife is not a Doper. I occasionally ask her a question related to a thread and post a summary of her reply, but she likes face-to-face communication and doesn’t really like e-mail or online conversation. If we all met downtown somewhere, she’d enjoy your company.
Nope. I sometimes send him links that he might enjoy, but that’s all the time he spends here.
I’ve probably mentioned the Dope to my girlfriend, and there are things she’d like here, but I doubt she’d ever spend much time on a message board. I have an ex who is a Charter Member, and I was surprised when she re-upped this year. She last posted in May.
The incomparable Sunflower works at a computer all day in the office. She says she would rather stay away from them at home, so she has little interest in the internet.
She refers to all of you as my imaginary friends…
My husband joined before the boards went to paid supbscription, posted maybe three times. He has been dubbed an “honorary Doper” by the esteemed Anita Vacation for his willingness to attend and participate in DopeFests. He lurks occaionally, and will sometimes suggest, when I’m puzzling over something, that I “ask the Dopers”.
He never did register, obviously, once the boards went pay-to-post.
Not only is Mamma Zappa a Doper, but she [thread=350645]signed me up for the SDMB[/thread]. 
Don’t know why it took me so long. Oh yeah - I was afraid the Dope would suck up the last bit of my time. It turns out I don’t mind …
Who is this Typo Knig chucklehead and why is he citing my name???
Tripler is my man, newly-dubbed SO and mainest of my squeezes. He’s the only human I squeeze as well, so that works out. We met at the Atlanta Cowtipper’s Dopefest in August and have been moving at near-light speed since. To be fair, I’ve been reading his posts for years, and once he even gave me dating advice in a thread about guns.
There’s something to be said for learning about someone strictly from their writing; I couldn’t picture him or say that I really ‘knew’ him, but I guess I felt that I could anticipate him somewhat.
On the flip side, I’m more careful about what I say in my posts; it’s an added degree of IRL accountablity.
Yes, he is a Doper. Both of us have accounts. Lots of times I’ll be on the couch with my laptop and he’ll be four feet away with his laptop and one of us will start chuckling madly and the other will ask what thread is being read and we’ll both sit there reading the same thread at the same time. Love the Dope.
Yep, my SO’s a doper. Met him at a Dopefest in November 2003 in fact, and we’ve been inseperable since.
I am currently single, but I can safely say that none of my past Significant Others would have taken an interest in the Straight Dope. I suffer from a distinct distaste for romantic partners with the same specific interests as mine. It’s the otherness in other that kindles my spark. I want a significantly other Significant Other, not a Significant Similar. That’s the curse of my existence and I must live with it.
Yup, he’s the one who convinced me to join. Only Mostly Dead is my husband now. Cite
No, although he’s the one who first mentioned the Dope to me. He gets the e-mails and mentioned that I might like them. I started reading the message boards and lurked forever before joining up.
He has, however, suggested asking things on the Dope, and he’s the only person to which I say, “So I read on the Dope …”
Jim was a Doper for a while, but he says it’s too hard to be a Doper, so he quit when we went P2P. Jim’s not stupid, by any means, but he doesn’t want to work this hard at his entertainment. Fair enough.
Hey, Congrats, that is pretty cool.