# Maria & Arnold calling it quits after 25 years **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 10, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396 "2011-05-10T14:39:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/21 "2011-05-10T18:25:52Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Listen Elendil’s Heir, don’t start up with your white zone shit again. Oh really, **Rhythmdvl**? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion. But I can’t. I’m a dude. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/22 "2011-05-10T18:31:05Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > I don’t know if divorcing a Kennedy is a good thing…that family plays rough…I’m just saying. You don’t think he’ll end up under a bridge at Chappaquiddick Island do you? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/23 "2011-05-10T18:41:33Z")
The marriage was Terminated. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/24 "2011-05-10T18:53:24Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > The marriage was Terminated. You mean it was Ahnuld? ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/25 "2011-05-10T18:53:37Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > You don’t think he’ll end up under a bridge at Chappaquiddick Island do you? I’m just saying that the Last Action Hero could find himself expendable, and end up erased, terminated, or burned up in a ball of red heat. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/26 "2011-05-10T18:54:01Z")
She just found out he’s a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/27 "2011-05-10T19:45:44Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > I don’t know if divorcing a Kennedy is a good thing…that family plays rough…I’m just saying. I think he [knows how to deal with that](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rziE39JWfs). ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/28 "2011-05-17T09:26:57Z")
Guv [fathered a child](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/05/17/arts/AP-US-Schwarzenegger-Shriver-Separation.html?hp) with his house staff. _Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple’s home before they announced their separation last week._ ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/29 "2011-05-17T11:37:20Z")
Well, _he’s_ not shooting blanks, that’s something. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/30 "2011-05-17T11:41:28Z")
Or wasn’t 20 years ago, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/31 "2011-05-17T12:23:56Z")
From the one article I had read on it, she mentioned that she had only heard about him deciding to run for Governor when he announced it on TV, and wasn’t really happy with how that affected her career. Not a good thing for your marriage when you decide to go for such a high profile job which will also require your wife to quit her job - without ever discussing that with her first. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/32 "2011-05-17T13:27:04Z")
> [@indian](#): > > Guv [fathered a child](http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/05/17/arts/AP-US-Schwarzenegger-Shriver-Separation.html?hp) with his house staff. > > _Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple’s home before they announced their separation last week._ Just saw this on the news. That certainly explains a lot. I wonder who the kid is, and whether he even knew. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/33 "2011-05-17T13:36:01Z")
Hmm, I guess he really is a sexual tyrannosaurus. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/34 "2011-05-17T13:39:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*“Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member …” \*Well yeah, isn’t that the whole point? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/35 "2011-05-17T13:41:51Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Hmm, I guess he really is a sexual tyrannosaurus. That was Jesse Ventura. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/36 "2011-05-17T14:53:00Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > From the one article I had read on it, she mentioned that she had only heard about him deciding to run for Governor when he announced it on TV, and wasn’t really happy with how that affected her career. Not a good thing for your marriage when you decide to go for such a high profile job which will also require your wife to quit her job - without ever discussing that with her first. I remember thinking that the marriage was on shaky ground when (either during the campaign or just after he won the election) when she made it abundantly clear that she was not moving to Sacramento. For those of you not familiar with CA, the idea of someone leading a Hollywood life in LA moving to Sacramento is sort of mind boggling. Sacramento is sees as a cultural wasteland, pretty much out in the desert-converted-to-farmland Central Valley whose only redeeming feature is its proximity to Tahoe. It’s just not done. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/37 "2011-05-17T14:57:40Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > From the one article I had read on it, she mentioned that she had only heard about him deciding to run for Governor when he announced it on TV, and wasn’t really happy with how that affected her career. Not a good thing for your marriage when you decide to go for such a high profile job which will also require your wife to quit her job - without ever discussing that with her first. While I understand why she felt the need to leave Dateline (was it Dateline?), I really think that if she wanted to continue being a reporter, the public would have accepted it. It’s a TV newsmagazine, not the New York Times. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/38 "2011-05-17T15:21:17Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I remember thinking that the marriage was on shaky ground when (either during the campaign or just after he won the election) when she made it abundantly clear that she was not moving to Sacramento. > > For those of you not familiar with CA, the idea of someone leading a Hollywood life in LA moving to Sacramento is sort of mind boggling. Sacramento is sees as a cultural wasteland, pretty much out in the desert-converted-to-farmland Central Valley whose only redeeming feature is its proximity to Tahoe. It’s just not done. I did not follow the Schwarzenegger family’s personal lives closely while he was in office. Did Maria move to the capital or did she stay in LA during his term in office? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/39 "2011-05-17T15:22:17Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > While I understand why she felt the need to leave Dateline (was it Dateline?), I really think that if she wanted to continue being a reporter, the public would have accepted it. It’s a TV newsmagazine, not the New York Times. Probably has to do with NBC News’ ethics policy. As first lady she would have been way too involved in the political side of things to continue on as a reporter. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396/40 "2011-05-17T16:18:55Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I did not follow the Schwarzenegger family’s personal lives closely while he was in office. Did Maria move to the capital or did she stay in LA during his term in office? She made Arnold commute back and forth. The idea of Maria living in Sacto for 8 years is laughable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/maria-arnold-calling-it-quits-after-25-years/581396.md?page=3)