# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/41 "2010-05-27T19:51:29Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > 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. 🙂 Have I just been insulted? I don’t know if I like the idea of dating me being “fighting ignorance.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/42 "2010-05-27T19:55:20Z")
My husband used to read and post here, but now he does neither. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/43 "2010-05-27T19:56:57Z")
I chose “doesn’t post here”, although she used to. A quick check of **kittenlm** ’s status shows it’s been over a year since her last post, which I think qualifies her as a non-poster. ---
**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, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/44 "2010-05-27T20:28:57Z")
> [@](#): > > My fiancée has posted here. Once. Unless you’re a lesbian you probably mean _fiance._ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/45 "2010-05-27T21:00:02Z")
My husband posted a couple of times many years ago, but he doesn’t understand what I see in this. In fact, he thinks Dopers are weird. Obviously, I married a defective… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/46 "2010-05-27T21:03:55Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > I’m a computer simulation of a fat Asian hacker. You do a damn fine imitation of being otherwise, however. 🆒 ---
**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, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/47 "2010-05-27T21:09:36Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Have I just been insulted? Yes, love – you were just insulted. See? Ignorance fought! ::runs far, far away:: ---
**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, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/48 "2010-05-27T21:15:59Z")
It’s not going to be far enough. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/49 "2010-05-27T21:21:45Z")
She knows where you post. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/50 "2010-05-27T21:33:44Z")
Mine tried it out while we were dating, but it just didn’t suck her in the way it’s apparently done me. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/51 "2010-05-27T21:37:16Z")
Mr. Ujest don’t ‘get’ this place, but after all the years (13 years) I have been here has finally started talking about[YOU PEOPLE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAlVKgl_zCQ) in a way like, “Why don’t you ask …you know… _them_” ---
**Author:** ![Flipshod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f19dbf/32.png) [@Flipshod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipshod)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/52 "2010-05-28T10:24:12Z")
I’m on wife #2 since I started lurking/posting here and neither of them even lurks. So when I go find out some answer to some obscure question that arises, I just seem resourceful. Win/win. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/53 "2010-05-28T12:05:34Z")
> [@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. > [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > I’m a computer simulation of a fat Asian hacker. I’m a fat Asian who hacked into a computer simulation. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/54 "2010-05-28T12:19:56Z")
No spouse but at one stage I had got three of my closest friends to post here. Now there’s only one left posting, **jjimm**. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/55 "2010-05-28T12:44:44Z")
I keep trying to talk him into it, because I think he’d fit in well and have a lot to contribute. Unfortunately he’s not interested. ---
**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 28, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/56 "2010-05-28T13:07:58Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > No spouse but at one stage I had got three of my closest friends to post here. Now there’s only one left posting, **jjimm**. Who were the other two? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/57 "2010-05-28T13:16:13Z")
Other: No longer have a spouse, but when I did, she posted here. Twice I think. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/58 "2010-05-28T15:03:04Z")
My partner thinks this is an utter waste of time. There are times when I agree with him. ---
**Author:** ![Eustacia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a183cd/32.png) [@Eustacia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eustacia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/59 "2010-05-28T16:58:09Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Unless you’re a lesbian you probably mean _fiance._ Actually, it was correct as given. We are each other’s fiancée. And now that makes two posts for her fiancée. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953/60 "2010-05-28T17:08:16Z")
Doesn’t post here, and when he sees me online says “Oh there you are on Something Awful again.” (I had never heard of Something Awful before that.) But he does occasionally read the column. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-the-sdmb/540953.md?page=4)