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I have an inactive facebook account that is never updated, and I've blocked everyone but the six "friends" I have, and I still managed to score a 3.

The only picture I had of me to upload for my profile pic was of my husband and me on our wedding day. And we're hugging.

I've now added: "update facebook profile so that I can score maximum points on this quiz" to my list of things to do today.

oh, do you get the ten points for the last one if someone else gave you the combined nickname? I'm counting it any ways.

chrisheena

I know a couple on Facebook who would score at least a 17. They spend half their status updates posting to each other how much they miss each other while he's at work, and saying things like "Leaving work to go home to my hott wife."

It's very annoying. Get a room, already.

Haha! Next time my hubby cleans his shotgun, I'm going to hug him and get someone to take our picture. I bet he'd be happy to get out a clean shotgun for the occasion.

Funny, we never once considered getting a joint email account. Maybe because he was deployed to Iraq so soon after we got married — when you don't actually get to live together, it's nice to have email to keep in touch with your spouse.

2 points here.

This post had me laughing all the way through.

I do find myself feeling bad sometimes that I'm in a happy marriage when so many others aren't.

Hysterical!!!

What should a couple's score be if the husband & wife share a fb page but that is only a front, i.e. after a few views it is clear that it is dominated by either the wife of the husband?
I was fairly new to fb and soon was connected to a buddy & his fiancee, who were already sharing a page. I soon defriended him (or him & her) after seeing too many posts & status updates that I could tell came only from her, and it hindered our communication.
BTW, the higher a couple's score is, the less time I will spend reading posts from them.
Cheers to all!

wv – skulbe – the movement of one's brain matter from enjoying sensory overload, e.g. watching two or more sports events & listening to the President's speech all at once.

Keep up the good work all you affirmers. It may be the thing keeping you hitched and you don't even know it.

But don't actually say this: and we still have tickle fights and split milkshakes with two straws that bend in the shape of a heart -unless someone asks. It may make someone less fortunate cry.

I

AM

MARRIED

Well, I'm not married, or attached, but still scored some points! Go me

My FB profile photo is of my wife and I posing with a Power Ranger. That's got to be worth some bonus points right there!

Happily Married,
Aaron (and Sarah)

Single, have my own email address, and yes…I threw up a lot.

At least I know how to be a survivor in this world of married fish. =)

Oh, I howled. H-O-W-L-E-D.

And on a whiny sarcastic note, one of my biggest pet peeves of FB is when husbands and wives have a joint account. I'm all like, YOU HAVE A SEPARATE IDENTITY, PEOPLE. EMBRACE IT.

*smile*

Anonymous @ 5:13 – I also use G K Chesterton! Lewis is a little played out, and anyway I find I like Chesterton better. Partly because Lewis had a very faint hint of misogyny through much of his life (not surprising, when you remember that he knew very few women and most of those weren't very intelligent) and Chesterton was happily married and so feels much more supportive.

George MacDonald probably also has some excellent quotes, come to think of it.

Oh, and I'm married. I don't really make a big deal of it. We don't even share an email address.

My husband (whom I love dearly) and I like your blog! Keep up the good words!

Hahaha…this one is hilarious!

As a single person, I did not throw up, however, as I am okay with my singleness and enjoy encouraging other people's healthy marriages. But it doesn't make what they do any less awkward or funny.

My parents have the ultimate couples email address. It literally is my dad's name "Alan" and my mom's name "Lynn" smooshed into "allynn". I just got my mom on facebook so I'll have to send this to her so she can score a bazillion points. She's so excited about my dad's new Rob Bell-ish glasses, it's hysterical. "He looks like a rock star!" I'm sure pictures will be posted soon.

I notice women tend to use it as a power play. "My husband and I don't have time for things like whatever you are doing because we are married and have so much more important things to be doing."
A word on the shared emails as well, be respectful of each other and realize women overshare with each other. I know husbands and wives shouldn't have secrets from each other, but do you need to know that I want her to go shopping is because I want a swimsuit that doesn't ride up? And further if you do know this, I'd appreciate if you don't reference this in public.

jon, you should create a post on the christian deck of cards, and appropriate times to throw out each card. you've come up with a lot of good ones.

Now you need to do one about Making sure no one online knows that you are married. All points are negative.

Hopefully I score a 0 on this test, just like I did on #615.

Julie beat me to it, but I'm totally going for #10 (Your profile photo on facebook is a picture of you and your husband hugging while he cleans a shotgun. = +4 points) the next time my husband's got his shotgun out. He'll love it because I'm not a fan of the gun.

Referring to your hott husband/wife can go a little too far in some cases. I don't want to think about your hott spouse when I should be purely thinking about my own. You know, stumbling block, and all that.

I score a big fat zero! Yikes! But I did comment on this post to say "I am married" so can I get a point for that?
Time to go update my fb profile. which was written by my husband when he created my facebook page so that his profile would say who he was married to and have a pic of me instead of just saying married. So I guess he does better than I do.

I'm single but I really enjoy when people I know work 'the husband' or 'the wife' into conversation. It really does affirm their relationship. What I take issue with however is when men slap the wife sticker on conversations that have NOTHING to do with their wives. Think about it from the perspective of the woman who is just trying to get her job done. If in response to an email I sent asking about the delivery time of an order I get some shoehorned mention of the wife, I suddently have to question the way I dress or act around this guy for the rest of our work interactions. I ask you what you're doing over the weekend? bring on the wife talk. I ask you something simple? Don't make me second guess my perfectly profesisonal behavior!

wow, I'm far angrier about this than I thought.

I scored 0 points but we've been happily married for almost 18 years. And just yesterday my husband and I were discussing how odd we both think it is for married couples to have joint Facebook and/or email accounts!

I have a lot of married friends on facebook, so here are a few I've noticed.
22. You change your facebook status from "engaged" to "married" while still on your honeymoon. = +2 points
23. You display honeymoon photos, while still on your honeymoon. = -2 points
24. You only link to your wedding web site. = +2 points
25. It's still your only link after 2 years (or it's changed to your husband-wife blog). = +4 points
26. For favorite book you list The Love Dare, explaining that it gave you some great ideas. = +2 points
27. Instead of sending private messages, you comment on each other's statuses. = +2 points
28. In the About Me section, you narrate a dramatic rendition of The Proposal. = +2 points
29. You tweet how much you love being a housewife. = -2 points
30. You profile picture is the two of you wearing "I'm with him" and "I'm with her" shirts. +2 points

I don't do this on the internet very much but I *do* do (hehe) this all the time in public. As a college student, a lot of the boys I meet at school are too young to look for the ring on my hand, so I will name-drop like crazy even if it's completely irrelevant. If the guy says he wrote a paper on 19th century feminist theory I respond "oh my gosh, my husband loves feminist theory!" For reals.

I scored 8 points…We share an email address, but we both have separate ones for work too. I still counted that in my points though! Love that you are very up front about being married and that you set healthy and respectable boundaries!

Oh, my. I'm so thankful you are not in your right mind. I love your response to the question about how your found your literary agent. And "Framela" is amazing. 100 points.

Happily married,
Jeanne

Uh-oh…I'm married and on facebook and twitter…but I scored zero points…yikes!

I have got to start letting the online world how much I love my hot/sexy/amazing/awesome/wonderful/handsome husband.

(I really do by the way!)

31. (Continuing from Christina's great additions above) You and your spouse share a Facebook account: +5

I suck.

I'm a newlywed. Not only that, I'm nearly 32 and feel like I had to wait for-freaking-ever to get married. I still get zero points. And my facebook profile image is me doing the Charlie's Angels pose with two of my friends.

wv: inmambl. The failure to speak clearly, especially about being married.

Ugh. This is one of my least favorite phenomenons. Ever. Ever! I think it alienates same-gendered friends. Why would I want to talk about my dating life or my menstrual cramps with, say, my college roommate's husband? I wouldn't. I respect transparency in marital relationships, but I also think its not unreasonable to value other, outside relationships.

And for some reason, most of the time I talk to someone online or off who wants me to know he's married, who really really wants me to know he's married is someone I'd be unwilling to date even if he were unmarried. I always feel faintly as if I've just been accused of a crime it hadn't occurred to me to commit. Or tempted to shout "not with that nose hair, buddy."

I have a friend who's married. Instead of the status wars on Facebook, they have vomitous-sexy-comments-war on myspace. I mean vomitous. As in, I really didn't need to know how amazing last night was vomitous. I think they should lose half a trillion points for that.

"fortunately, I am not in my right mind". So very, truly fortunate! For all of us!
Incidentally, when I first saw your email address, I though "who is Thea?" so there you have it… A little more incognito than "twoinbliss@email" like we (yes I just used the WE!) used to use. Ugh, so embarrassing. Not that I love my husband of 11 years any less but come on. Too in your face.
Now let's see, that reply had 4 married refrences… Yeah that should do.

I've found slipping in the "I'm married" reference more when I meet someone new. There are just so many people out there who try to connect with someone romantically on the net that I make sure they understand where the lines are drawn. If I know the person already then I rarely make a point of mentioning my husband unless it naturally comes up in conversation. But we don't share email addresses or any of that. That seems more like a trust issue between spouses than a hint to the world of your martial status.

I feel a little weird about all the Christian couples I know who share email, facebook, etc. Can't we be like "regular" people and allow ourselves to be individuals within a couple?

I also don't like to interact with couple email and facebook accounts — who AM I talking to?

Before I finished reading, I was already planning on commenting "this post would be more aptly titled 'things that make single people throw up in their mouths'…" but then you threw in that last sentence. At least you know the reaction you're inducing

(But no, wait. That begs the question, then, that if you know the degree to which you are doing something is found to be obnoxious by a large swath of the population, why persist in doing it? I'm not saying that marrieds should hide their epic love, but, you know… balance. Not to be a Debbie Downer or anything though– just trying to keep you honest, Johnny-boy )

Churchrat, ITA
I work with almost exclusively guys. We went to a baseball game and a couple wives/fiancees went. I made sure I introduced myself to them. It was a little odd because I don't want to be in the middle of the guys while their wives look on, but they were the ones I knew. I'm going to be traveling with the guys so I wanted to make sure the wives knew I was completely on the up and up. OTOH, there are times when I'm thinking if I had wanted a chance with you I would have done it 10 years ago, but I didn't because you are still the same boy who dumped sand in my hair during play group.

This doesn't really have to do with online specifically, but the one that drives me NUTS is this: Anytime anyone, ANYONE comes up with a bright thought, idea, way of doing things, mention that your spouse came up with it first, because their spouse is so wicked smart.

"I love the internet."

"OMGosh! So does my husband. He loved it even before there was an internet. I mean he is THAT smart!"

I'm a single girl. This definitely left me possessed of a strong desire to throw up a little in my shoe.

wv- mongom: the pukey moaning sound I was making by the end of this post.

When my college roomate got married, she and her husband created a joint email account with the name: thehappiestcouple. *gag*

Some of the things on this list are cute, but I unfriend facebook contacts who set a picture of them kissing their significant other as their profile shot. Most of my married or engaged friends have ben unfriended at one point or another. And I'll usually check in later and refriend if the picture has changed, but in the dippy-in-love, 42-days-until-the-big-day stage (or 42-days-since-the-big-day), all their updates are nauseating anyway.

It's just my own special boundary that I didn't have to go to couples counseling in order to set.

I'm single–
but I have a bunch of married friends–and they have you beat– by a lot.
You should add—listed as employment on Facebook: wife employer: my wonderful husband.+5

wish I was kidding.

"My smokin' hot wife and I" do marriage ministry at my church and one of the new trends in extra-marital affairs is hooking up with old significant others/crushes through FB.

I scored a 5 and my wife is upwards of 12-15 … regularly updated hugging, marriage pictures… man, my wife's hot.

You could be quoted in a Foxnews article about how you and your wife share an account.

Someone with whom I am facebook friends is engaged and updates her status almost daily with the countdown days until the wedding. I know I'm cynical and mean, but I can't help thinking, "We get it. You're getting married. That's awesome. Now shut up already."

"My wife and I" of over 40 years still have seperate bank accounts, e-mail addresses, Facebook accounts, computers and even offices (within our home)!!! We even go to different home groups at church! And yes I did score zero! But we are still married, and a couple of months ago I did enjoy telling anybody who would listen that we were celebrating our Ruby Wedding!!! Oh, and I do have a number of online female friends – and they definitely all know I am married, and much older than them!!!

Oh I totally know about the singleton post … I shared it with my Singleton friends on a well-known Christian web site.

When I address a letter to a married opposite sex friend, I make a point to address it to him and his wife. He may share the contents with her, he may not, but the point of that little exercise is to make sure he knows there is nothing in the letter that he can't share with his beloved. Also I make a point of asking, "How is your lovely wife?" A former boss of mine "jokingly" said "How do you know she's lovely" and I told him that was my little way of supporting his marriage. He left her for some chick he met on the internet 6 months later.

Your blog rocks! Make sure your lovely wife knows I said so!

I am single and this post didn't make me want to throw up because I GET this website!!!! It is a fun site!

Now I do have to admit that I am dating and I did post a picture of my honey and I on my Facebook page, mainly to show off my being in a couple (hey, at least I am honest), let other people know that I am dating so that they can stop gossiping and clucking their tongues about my love life (another thing Christians seem to like – gossip), and to VERY kindly let other women on Facebook know that I am not available for them.

Would I have tossed my tacos if I was truly "single" (i.e., sans significant other)? Perhaps. But hey, this site is fun. If people want to go and start a fight everytime the word Marriage is uttered, there is another well-known Christian site out there that is chocked full of acrimony and hurt feelings about other people being married…

WV: histur – WAAAAAAYYYY to easy

Oh, I get it now! This explains a strange conversation I had the other day with a co-worker.
Me: "Before I forget, 'so & so' called for you while you were out."
Mike: "Oh, I had to take my hot wife to the dentist this morning."
Me: "Okay…"

BTW, I am also married. And happily too.