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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:31 PM
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Who is the DUer most guilty of serial monogamy?
I'll fess up if you will. How many times have you been married?

(This is another reason I support giving gays the chance to participate in legal marriage. Maybe they'll be better at it than I have! :D )
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:33 PM
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1. Twice
One divorce.

If this one doesn't work out, he's going into the woodchipper and I'll wear lots of fab black widow's weeds.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:34 PM
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2. I have been married only once and am still married.
However, I was in a "longterm committed relationship" in my late teens and early twenties - the relationship that produced my oldest child. It turned out that I was more committed than he, and I ultimately left him. That would have been one divorce for me if we'd married.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:34 PM
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3. Once
Edited on Mon Jun-13-05 09:47 PM by proud2Blib
Monogamous for over 30 years.

But I believe California Peggy has me beat by 10 years.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:35 PM
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4. I am very loyal to myself. I would never cheat on me!
:silly::hi:
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:41 PM
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6. Neither a borrower or a lender be
and this above all

to thine own self be true,
and it follows as the night the day
thou canst not be false to any man . . .


or something like that
:shrug:
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:36 PM
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5. My former boss was with her 4th husband.
And still is.

Can you beat that?
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:42 PM
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9. Only if I ever get married again.
And I do not intend to. Companionship, yes. Betrothal, hell no. :D
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Madrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 10:09 PM
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13. My ex-boyfriend's ex wife can beat you ALL -
She's currently on the prowl for husband number 12! Yes - TWELVE!

And that's of course not counting the gazillion boyfriends in between all those husbands!
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 10:11 PM
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15. DAmn!
How old is she? Slow to learn?
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Madrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 07:50 AM
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17. 40-something - (early 40's)
And not slow to learn at all. It's her job.

We're talking serious psycho. She's a user.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:42 PM
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7. Ok, it looks like it's me.
I've been married three times. (Is anyone shocked?)

The first one was when I was 18, to get out from under my parents' roof. It lasted for ONE month.

The second was abusive and cheated. Lasted six months.

The third was very abusive (tried to kill me) and cheated multiple times. Lasted three years. I found out that I was pregnant while on the gurney in the emergency room.

I never found myself until after the third divorce. It was only then that I decided that I had to quit counting on men to provide my self-esteem. I entered college and am now finishing my PhD. More than anything, I love me now.
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:42 PM
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8. Guilty as charged
25 years this May.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:48 PM
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10. Congrats!
:toast:
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ashling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:57 PM
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11. Thanks
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 09:59 PM
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12. Once. Still married. eom
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jandrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 10:10 PM
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14. Once. Almost 15 years now.
Still goin' strong.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-13-05 10:16 PM
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16. Once
But it's serial polygamy with me. The one time I was married I was the first but not the only husband. 3 husbands and one wife but I was the only really legal one. Plus a live in lover-girl who didn't wanna get tied down.

It was, in fact, complicated..

Khash.
(but with me it's always complicated...)
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 07:53 AM
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18. Just once, for the time being.
Edited on Tue Jun-14-05 08:14 AM by whoisalhedges
Ask me again in the fall. :)
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 07:53 AM
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19. 3
and 2 long term line-in relationships ... so you could say 5 times
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 07:55 AM
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20. One marriage - going on 16 years.
three kids, mortgage, dog. I don't think either of us plan to go anywhere.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 07:55 AM
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21. Once. We will celebrate five years of marriage this September.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:06 AM
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22. I am a practioner of monogamy, not serial monogamy.
I've been married to the same woman for almost 20 years, and I lived with her for a year before we married.

I chased her for about 2 or 3 years before we became lovers. I'm still crazy about her. I could not imagine a life without her.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-05 08:10 AM
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23. One marriage. One divorce.
I don't believe I'll be living in that institution again!
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