# Not your average personal ad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111 "2017-03-13T19:32:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/1 "2017-03-13T19:32:47Z")
Prolific book author Amy Krouse Rosenthal was dying of ovarian cancer. She wrote a [personal ad](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-may-want-to-marry-my-husband.html) for her husband to find a new love after she was gone. (She died today) > [@](#): > > I have never been on Tinder, Bumble or eHarmony, but I’m going to create a general profile for Jason right here, based on my experience of coexisting in the same house with him for, like, 9,490 days. ---
**Author:** ![bobtimusprime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/94ad74/32.png) [@bobtimusprime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobtimusprime)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/2 "2017-03-13T19:40:45Z")
Reminds me of the old Marty Robbins’ song “My wingman, my wingman, my wife”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/3 "2017-03-13T22:12:49Z")
Wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/4 "2017-03-13T22:27:42Z")
I’m not sure which I find more bizarre: The fact that she did this, or the fact that I consider that bizarre itself. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/5 "2017-03-14T00:02:13Z")
Reminds me of the time my ex wrote a personal ad for me, back in the 80s. Not at the end of our relationship, but closer to the beginning. I even met one of the guys who answered the ad. Yes, bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/6 "2017-03-14T02:48:18Z")
One of my church youth advisers had his wife die of cancer. He still had two young daughters and his wife had urged him to find someone to help raise them up. People process these things differently. I don’t find it bizarre at all. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/7 "2017-03-14T03:04:20Z")
Neither do I. If you love deeply, then the happiness of your partner matters more than anything else. He sounds like quite a guy, and she sounds like she was an extraordinary woman. Both the personal ad and the obituary brought me to tears. Of course… I’m at that age where I cry at the sound of a leaf rustling. :o ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/8 "2017-03-14T04:37:47Z")
_“If you like Pina Coladas…”_ ---
**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:** [March 15, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-average-personal-ad/782111/9 "2017-03-15T17:06:48Z")
Very moving and brave.