# my ex. I get to rant here? You'd better sit down. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 13, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384 "2000-07-13T02:41:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/21 "2000-07-14T05:20:39Z")
:::stunned::: Wow, dewt, my exes were a combination of Mother Teresa, Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale and Eleanor Roosevelt, in comparison to your Temple of Utter Viscious Woe (God, I love that name!). Holy shit, I got off lightly… ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/22 "2000-07-14T10:51:36Z")
You cant get custody? What a horrible story. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewt)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/23 "2000-07-14T12:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Byzantine \* > \*\*How long did you know this woman before you married her? \*\* Ok. This is where I lose you all. 7 months. And here, let’s make it worse. I **knew** I was making a mistake. I was walking down the aisle, thinking, “This is wrong, this is _soooo_ wrong.” I went through with it though, mistaking the ‘little voices’ for ‘cold feet’. It’ll never happen again though. My little voices won’t let me forget it. They keep chanting, “We told you so, we told you so.” Blue, I’m glad you got off lightly. It takes a special combination of bad luck, naivete, and all around bad judgement to end up with a wife and subsequent ex like I did. Kelli, I probably could get custody, except that the Canadian family courts are notariously biased against fathers. Also I can’t afford another 30 grand in legal fees and furthermore my ex might just flip out and kill us all. Silver, thanks. No it’s not over. Unless something completely unexpected happens, it won’t be over for another 9 years. She will not get the help she needs. That would imply that she’d have to acknowledge that she was wrong, which will _never_ happen, and she’d also have to accept that she needs meds. This too has an improbablility factor roughly equivalent to me winning the lotto without buying a ticket. As for reasons to feel bitter, shit. This is only the tip of the iceberg. A rough draft outline. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/24 "2000-07-14T19:01:18Z")
I have only two things to say. First, every time I hear a story like this, it reminds me why I’m going to law school in a year. Second…what’s a kelbeh? ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/25 "2000-07-14T20:01:15Z")
Bluepony, I don’t know you from Adam, but . . . > [@](#): > > From someone with 2 ex-wives. If you can manage to come up with 2 ex-wives, either a) the problem is you, or b) you have shitty taste in women. ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/26 "2000-07-14T20:06:32Z")
PL, (snicker) The answer is “A”!! The little head did way to much thinking in my younger days!! ---
**Author:** ![glackmeyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@glackmeyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glackmeyer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/27 "2000-07-14T21:06:23Z")
whoa…could you and i have been married to the same bitch? ---
**Author:** ![dewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewt)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/28 "2000-07-16T16:23:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Drain Bead \* > \*\*I have only two things to say. > > First, every time I hear a story like this, it reminds me why I’m going to law school in a year. > > Second…what’s a kelbeh? \*\* First, the justice system needs some good lawyers. Good luck. Kelbeh is ‘bitch’ in Arabic. glackmeyer: I doubt it. That would mean that we were _both_ Hitler in a past life. ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/29 "2000-07-17T03:03:55Z")
Well, I don’t want to say I told you so, since I didn’t even KNOW you but if those little voice start screaming in the future, you’ll know better, won’t you? Good luck, sugar, on dealing with this horrible situation. Just take what you can from this and never do it again. But I don’t think I really need to say that. Once burned and all… ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384/30 "2000-07-17T21:43:51Z")
Dewt man, I really feel for you! Im being really sincere here. Ive fought the battles and won some and lost others too, and it’s horrible that the CJS and Family courts do us that way. I have my own “Fucking EX” story I may share when Im ready to. But I just had to say something to you and let you know you’re not alone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-ex-i-get-to-rant-here-youd-better-sit-down/25384.md?page=1)