# Marriage and the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953 "2010-05-27T14:58:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/21 "2010-05-27T16:31:28Z")
> [@stpauler](#): > > My partner doesn’t post here, but does do things like “maybe you can ask the dopers about..”. So he’s posting by proxy via me. Same here… my GF regards it as potentially intrusive for her to join up (and she would not appreciate it if I joined some of the boards _she_ participates in… it would curtail her freedom to tell tales on me! 😃 )… but she does ask me to post a question to the Dope on occasion, most recently about a noisy bird we were hearing outside our window. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/22 "2010-05-27T16:31:48Z")
No spouse. I have enticed a few friends to post here, however. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/23 "2010-05-27T16:33:58Z")
My spouse posted under my name one time. I don’t think that counts. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/24 "2010-05-27T16:44:50Z")
I chose “other” because my first husband was FunLvnCriminal, who hasn’t posted here for a number of years but was the “Ask the guy who had weight loss surgery” guy. So, ex-spouse posted here, but I got custody of the SDMB when we divorced. Also, I have sometimes had a sneaking suspicion that my boyfriend posts here sometimes, but I haven’t asked him. I figure we’ll let some things be mysterious for a while. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nefarious_chipmunk/32/1045_2.png) [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/25 "2010-05-27T16:52:49Z")
My husband made an account when I first started posting here, but I don’t think he has ever used it. I doubt if he even remembers he has it. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/26 "2010-05-27T16:55:33Z")
My SO has lurked on occasion. Mostly he just says to me “those Dope people of yours.” ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/27 "2010-05-27T17:00:49Z")
I put “spouse posts here” but he’s only posted two or three times ever, so it’s really just a technicality. I did not meet him on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/28 "2010-05-27T17:02:49Z")
My spouse and I met IRL. She forums elsewhere. The dope is not her cup of tea. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/29 "2010-05-27T17:28:30Z")
My wife doesn’t consider people I only know online (Dopers, my WoW guild) to be “real” people. I don’t know if she thinks you’re all computer simulations, or fat Asian hackers, or what. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/30 "2010-05-27T17:30:21Z")
My wife has met a bunch of you and considers you all too real. Collectively, you are “the mistress I spend too much time with.” 😃 ---
**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 27, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/31 "2010-05-27T17:51:49Z")
My husband doesn’t post here but enjoys tales of your collective wisdom and foibles very much. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/32 "2010-05-27T17:58:11Z")
Spouse posts here on occasion. We met in a parking lot many years ago while engaged in geek activities (no chickens were harmed). We started reading SD in a local alternative newspaper early in our married days and lurked online for years before joining, so while the SD did not bring us together, it was one of the ways we strengthened our marriage bonds in the early years. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/33 "2010-05-27T18:15:58Z")
Spouse doesn’t post, doesn’t lurk, and can’t remember the name of this place. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/34 "2010-05-27T18:16:48Z")
I don’t have a spouse, but my friends always have a chuckle whenever I we have a question that I “ask the internet” about. She also says “I love it when you talk about your internet friends”. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/35 "2010-05-27T18:20:43Z")
Pepper Mill never felt the need to follow closely, although she does love some of the stuff this Board brings up. And she contributed to one of the early issues of **Teemings** [http://www.teemings.net/series\_1/issue07/glinda.html](http://www.teemings.net/series_1/issue07/glinda.html) MilliCal, our daughter, on the other hand, peruses the SDMB, and I suspect she may end up posting. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/36 "2010-05-27T18:26:42Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > My wife doesn’t consider people I only know online (Dopers, my WoW guild) to be “real” people. I don’t know if she thinks you’re all computer simulations, or fat Asian hackers, or what. This. Although mine has expressed interest in attending an OrlanDope, if we get around to having another one. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/37 "2010-05-27T19:13:04Z")
Mrs Magill doesn’t post here, though she knows people who do. She’s expressed an interest in coming to a minifest some time. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/38 "2010-05-27T19:41:56Z")
My fiancée has posted here. Once. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/39 "2010-05-27T19:45:14Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > My wife doesn’t consider people I only know online (Dopers, my WoW guild) to be “real” people. I don’t know if she thinks you’re all computer simulations, or fat Asian hackers, or what. I’m a computer simulation of a fat Asian hacker. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/40 "2010-05-27T19:49:39Z")
I voted for “other.” My former spouse used to post here, and, in fact, introduced me to the board. My current girlfriend is someone I was fortunate enough to meet via the Dope. Love is, after all, often about fighting ignorance. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953.md?page=3)