# My mom's friend is getting divorced for the SEVENTH time! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580 "2008-11-07T02:41:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/21 "2008-11-07T16:53:43Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > She’s just looking for someone named Henry. Let’s not lose our heads over this. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/22 "2008-11-07T17:15:50Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > She’s just looking for someone named Henry. If only every one was a Henry, then she wouldn’t have a Willy or a Sam. Yes, I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/23 "2008-11-07T20:19:39Z")
Well, to be fair, the guy was a genius level ex-special forces one man ass-kicking machine. You just _know_ a guy like that is going to be high maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/24 "2008-11-07T22:05:24Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Yup. So glad the solemnity of the marriage between two practicing heterosexuals is shown here, undiluted by sharing it with homosexuals. Careful. Because some of those gay marriages have begun to dissolve already - and some of them in predictably nasty ways. And while it would be as misguided for critics of these unions to seize on these incidents as evidence of their views on the subject as it is for you to seize on these incidents, it sure isn’t stopping some of them from doing so. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/25 "2008-11-07T23:14:25Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > My mother called me the other night and informed me that her friend/ex-roommate, B.B., is getting divorced from her most recent husband. Yes, B.B. married this [compulsively-lying ghetto redneck](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=304494&highlight=braggart), and surprise surprise, he turned out to be a bad husband. Damn, if them two crazy kids couldn’t make it, there’s no hope for any of us. In the other thread, it was YOUR roommate. Now it’s your mother’s roommate? ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/26 "2008-11-08T20:13:47Z")
Your moms friend doesn’t sound the brightest of people for believing the blokes B/S in the first place and come ON,she’s had six failed marriages already! What does she like wedding cake or something? Or is she just terminally immature? No sympathy from this quarter I’m afraid. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/27 "2008-11-08T21:49:13Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > In the other thread, it was YOUR roommate. Now it’s your mother’s roommate? I was wondering when someone was going to point this out. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/28 "2008-11-08T23:54:43Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > I was wondering when someone was going to point this out. Me too. I figured everyone else just knew something about the OP’s personal life that I didn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/29 "2008-11-09T00:04:01Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Me too. I figured everyone else just knew something about the OP’s personal life that I didn’t know. Couldn’t it be both? I just read it as her mothers friend but her room mate. I can certainly see it the other way though. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/30 "2008-11-09T00:21:46Z")
Well, it might have been one of those deals where one changes certain details for anonymity’s sake or something. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/31 "2008-11-09T00:27:57Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Couldn’t it be both? I just read it as her mothers friend but her room mate. I can certainly see it the other way though. …that would count as knowing something about her personal life that I do not. E.g., she had a roommate who was her mother’s friend and ex-roommate. ---
**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/32 "2008-11-09T00:30:33Z")
Maybe she’s taken over the account from her mother? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/33 "2008-11-09T00:32:14Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > …that would count as knowing something about her personal life that I do not. E.g., she had a roommate who was her mother’s friend and ex-roommate. I don’t think so- I know nothing of her perosnal life and can read it that way. It is a matter of interpretation Also, I can’t see the big deal if she altered one small detail in either post for convenience. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/34 "2008-11-09T00:44:59Z")
_sigh_ I never said it was a big deal, and I didn’t say that it couldn’t be read that way without knowing her personal life. My point was that I didn’t ask “hey, what’s up with that” because I didn’t know the poster, and that or any number of other things (what WF Tomba said occurred to me as well) could explain it. Since I don’t know her, and since she didn’t make a point of explaining it, I thought “well, maybe it’s something that other people would already know” and didn’t bother to follow it up. Please show me where anything I said implied that knowing her personal life was required in order to guess at possible answers? I merely explained why I didn’t bring it up myself. That’s ALL. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/35 "2008-11-09T00:47:28Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > _sigh_ > I never said it was a big deal, and I didn’t say that it couldn’t be read that way without knowing her personal life. My point was that I didn’t ask “hey, what’s up with that” because I didn’t know the poster, and that or any number of other things (what WF Tomba said occurred to me as well) could explain it. Since I don’t know her, and since she didn’t make a point of explaining it, I thought “well, maybe it’s something that other people would already know” and didn’t bother to follow it up. Please show me where anything I said implied that knowing her personal life was required in order to guess at possible answers? I merely explained why I didn’t bring it up myself. That’s ALL. This to me implied it: Originally Posted by OpalCat …that would count as knowing something about her personal life that I do not. I really have no interest though, in continuing a pointless discussion. Maybe the original OP can clarify at her convenience. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/36 "2008-11-09T01:06:41Z")
Knowing that her roommate was her mother’s friend to me = knowing something about her personal life. To me your statement, beginning with “couldn’t it” implied that what I had said somehow implied that [any given explanation] was not likely. What I said was meant, rather, to simply explain that I did not have any additional information, but thought that such information could exist that would explain it in a way that made sense. Given that I thought there was likely a good explanation, I didn’t bring it up myself. Given that I didn’t know the poster, but others might, I figured that might be why nobody else had brought it up. I say this not to drag on a pointless discussion, but merely because I have an obsession about not being misunderstood and wanted to be sure that in the end at least you knew what I meant. That’s all. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/37 "2008-11-09T01:12:00Z")
Okay, just to clear this up: B.B. was both my roommate and my mother’s roommate. I suppose to be precise she was at one time our housemate. She is also my mother’s friend. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/38 "2008-11-09T02:54:08Z")
That makes much more sense now 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Across](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Across](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Across)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580/39 "2008-12-19T03:21:03Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > Okay, just to clear this up: B.B. was both my roommate and my mother’s roommate. I suppose to be precise she was at one time our housemate. She is also my mother’s friend. I got the impression from the 2005 thread that your roommate was young-ish - at one point she told you Bragging Boyfriend was jealous when she’s danced with another man at a club. I’m surprised that she’s managed to work her way through so many marriages. Hell, I’m not done with my first one! I’m also surprised the 2005 thread didn’t mention husbands 1 through 6. Any chance of more amusing stories from parts i-vi? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-moms-friend-is-getting-divorced-for-the-seventh-time/471580.md?page=1)