Forum: scifi.stackexchange.com
Tags: <doctor-who>
Title: Is the Doctor still married?
Question: In “The Snowmen” the Doctor kisses his new-found companion-to-be... but isn't he still married to River Song? Is he essentially cheating, was there another purpose to it, or is there something else I've missed?  I did wonder if it was something to do with the timelines getting mixed, but from memory it's her timeline that's going back while his goes forward, not the other way around.

Answers:
sents: text: The Doctor is still married and technically the soon-to-be companion is the one who did the kissing, not the Doctor, he just stood there, kind of surprised, looking all doctor-ish...
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3875/Deleteman
score: 20
sents: text: River Song is dead in the timeline.
text: There were a few minisodes that took place between the 6th and 7th season which showed the Doctor and River going on their final adventures.
text: (Together the series was called Night and the Doctor )
text: Yes, you might have seen River after that point, but all of Doctor Who is wibbley wobbley.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3383/Naftali aka Neal
score: 12
sents: text: Probably not.
text: For one, he didn't initiate it.
text: For two, he and River seem to have an open relationship, as the Doctor is also married to Queen Elizabeth I and Marilyn Monroe, and River once mentioned having dated a Nestene duplicate.
text: For three, the legitimacy of their marriage is questionable since it took place in an aborted timeline that even River has said was irrelevant to the real world, when she tells Amy not to feel guilty about killing Madame Kovarian since it never happened due to the timeline's negation.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/12662/user12662
score: 9
sents: text: The doctor is over a thousand years old, he also married queen elizabeth the first in the fiftieth
text: so we have astablished he is some form of polygamist, did he marry anyone else?
text: And just to make it clear
text: the doctor is probably most in love with the tardis out of everyone, seriously
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20744/user20744
score: 2
sents: text: in a sense they are married, the problem was stated by river that they were two time travelers going in opposite directions, their cases were
text: the married river meets the doctor before he married her, and a married doctor meeting river who is yet to marry the doctor.
text: The sad thing is that they probably remember the one day that they were married and that their wedding day, and the days before they leave to do their own work, which means that their married selves ended meeting their unmarried younger selves.
text: it's sad when you think about it.
text: The only other day, i would believe River and Doctor lived as man and wife, was when he finally took her to the singing towers, he knew that day was coming, and realized how much he loved her, that he gave her his sonic as a subtle message to 10 to save her in the end by uploading her into the CAL, and preserve the timeline.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/20117/George
score: 1
sents: text: The Doctor is married to River, but the first time he ever met her is when she died.
text: So to him, she's dead.
text: Therefore, not cheating.
text: He was, in some way, married to Queen Elizabeth, but she's dead too now.
text: Same thing with Marilyn Monroe.
text: He dated (kinda) Rose before he was married and kissed Amy when he still wasn't married.
text: Kissing anyone else now still wouldn't count as cheating.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/40873/weepingxangel
score: 1
sents: text: Just a thought guys, but has anyone else realised that the Doctor and River aren't really married?
text: In the weding the Doctor was suposed to tell her his name but he didnt.
text: He told her to look in his eye!
text: DOESN'T
text: THIS MEAN THEY
text: ARENT MARRIED?
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/14496/rachel
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
The Doctor is married to River Song, but the first time he ever met her is when she died. River is   dead   in the timeline.  He was, in some way, married to Queen Elizabeth, but she is now dead, too.
The Doctor is still married to River but she was dead when they first met. He also married Queen Elizabeth but she too is dead.