From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!hou5b!hou5c!hou5e!hou5a!hou5d!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!hall Newsgroups: net.singles Title: Are you married? - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1584 Posted: Sun Feb 27 16:34:50 1983 Received: Tue Mar 8 06:43:40 1983 #N:uiucdcs:26600029:000:871 uiucdcs!hall Feb 27 16:19:00 1983 I am a new reader of net.singles, so forgive me if this issue has been addressed before. The question is: when, or should you at all, ask a new friend if she is married? I have been told in two cases that it wasn't my business. Is this info supposed to be personal such as asking someone their age or how much their salary is? I mean, it's not really that important for me to know anyway, so I just don't ask anymore. Yes, I can look to see if she wears a ring (not all married folks do), or I can be more surreptitious and ask one of her friends (if I happen to know one). But what's wrong with just asking her? The last time this happened to me it was over a month until I found out. Over such a time span, it's easy for me to develop feelings for such a person that I wouldn't let develop or at least wouldn't express if I knew the woman was married. --John R. Hall