Btw, here’s my two stories. I posted them in that thread from 4 years ago but I left a lot out. Makes no difference now…
Unfortunately both times I have dealt with guild drama involved a couple.
My TBC guild was pretty awesome. We didn’t have any world first or anything but we made it to the Twins in Sunwell.
Our guild leader was a lady’s man and he let a certain guild member do whatever the hell she wanted. She was the only one that could come into a raid at the boss she needed and if an item dropped that she was after, it was automatically hers.
When Wrath came out, we didn’t have enough people for a 25m raid of Naxx so we split into two teams. The guild leader (Priest) his pet (another Priest) and another healer were part of the A Team (if you remember anything about 10m Naxx, it did not need three healers). My husband (a resto Druid) and someone’s undergeared healer alt was part of B Team (I was tanking on Tovi.)
Team A got pretty far because they had three people healing on their mains while Team B didn’t get a single wing done. I raised a big stink about it in ochat on our website but none of the other officers backed me up. I pointed out it was completely unfair to sabotage Team B just because the GL and his pet couldn’t stand to be apart plus they wouldn’t give us that third healer.
We left the guild after that and moved to a server that had a bunch of my Air Force buddies.
In that guild I ran into MORE couple trouble. The couple was in-laws with the guild leader. He knew they were a PITA but kept them under control during Wrath. However, he started having family trouble and had to quit WoW. He handed the reins over to his in-laws at the start of Cata, which was a huge mistake.
They both were extremely greedy people. The male half of that couple would roll on gear even if he didn’t need it. I remember Tovi had the 2h axe from 25m Naxx (Betrayer of Humanity) all the way through Ulduar and most of the way through ToTC because I kept loosing rolls to him on weapons that really weren’t upgrades. The female half was one of the worst healers I’ve ever come across. My husband and another resto Druid carried her through Wrath raiding.
That other resto Druid hated these people but he held his tongue through Wrath but when Cata rolled around, he finally snapped. With the GL gone, the male half was even more greedy now he had the power. We were in BWL and a ring dropped that was not an upgrade for this guy but of course he rolled on it anyways. The other resto Druid exploded in Vent, called him and his wife all kinds to names, then guild quit and took a lot of the raid members with him.
However, this story does have a happy ending. Kind of. They finally realized that their greedy ways wasn’t going to fly and calmed down a ton. A lot of people came back but the guild was never the same. The damage was done. I was later told they got through some of the first tier of MoP but fell part after that.
p.s. It’s a shame that women and couples get such a bad name. My husband and I have played together from Classic to Cata and we never started trouble.