Why are you partnered?

Are you partnered for love, business, or something else?

I sometimes notice on profiles that a person will have a new partner every week or so. I often come across people who are partnered with their own alts, business partners, or a friend. Then there are those who are partnered with their in-world sweetheart...and in some cases, their real-world sweetheart.

Why are you partnered?

My real-life boyfriend turned me on to SL, but he soon lost interest (in SL, not in me, thank god.) However, I still keep his AV partnered to fend off flirtatious AVs in clubs and stores. It's like wearing a wedding band; so long as you're partnered, strangers are less likely to hit you up for ball-sprawl.

Just feels natural to be partnered with my sweetie in SL as I am in RL.

I am not partnered in SL, me or my alt. Inasmuch that partnering is a statement to the other of one's dedication, I quite agree. My alt made great friends and was offered partnership but technical probs at the time prevented this.
I can honestly say a very few who approach, read profiles by the number of times someone's first question is "Where are you from?" It's there, on my front page in profile! If they can't see that, they can't see my partner panel.
Bilbo & Morgaine are RL partners. When we are in-world together we introduce ourselves as that. Haven't got round to filling the partner panel.

Out of love. And we call it marriage.

My partner has the sweetest, most wonderful and most charismatic pixels in sl. Need I say more?

In sl partnerships, being married and dating are all just another word for "temporary" status. It's like musical chairs, none of it lasts. For a good portion all they do is bounce from one to another then another then ano.....

Regardless of the reason for being partnered, they usually all have the same short-lived outcome.

Only if it's 'restrictive content'

Much as in RL, but SL time moves more quickly.

One thing led to another. How was I supposed to know you needed protection on Second Life?

If its a boy we are going to call him Philip Linden Dancer.

I was very concerned at first, but eventually warmed up to the idea of prim babies. Besides I bought my partner the cutest little maternity smock. He will look absolutely darling when he starts showing.

I'm a confirmed single in SL, but I would have liked to have had an identical twin alt. That would have been fun. But the chance has now passed and the Dada surname is no longer available, so the twin has to remain on the imaginary Gamma Grid!

For the one time I have so far I can only claim diminished responsibility!

I'm still open to the idea though ... as has been said, it does deter unwanted attention even if the behaviour of your partner gets you unwanted attention!

http://www.phoenixpsaltery.com/icaught.htm

'Nuff said.

P2

Obviously, so I can have someone to support my shopping habit

/me laughs out loud... pictures please

imogen

please tell your partner that condoms can be purchased at excite.

If only I had known.

Do they sell Maternity tests there as well? I mean, my partner used to be a real slut, how can I even know I am the mother of his baby.?

I wouldn't say ALL have the same short-lived outcome. My partner and I have been together for nearly 13 months now. And we have met other couples that have been partnered as long or longer.

Before we made that commitment, we took the time to actually talk about it and our feelings. And, as in all relationships, we have had a few rough times. She is a true friend, a soul mate and one of the most loving and compassionate people I've ever met in SL.

If you are only in it for the "pixel bumping" then, of course, its only going to last a few days. But if you really make a connection, well...

There are exceptions.

My SL partner and I have been together for over a year now and have been officially partners for almost 9 months.

It's a lot easier in SL than RL Carli .. you just need to compare DNS numbers ... or was it A? ... it escapes me.

OMG, Carli...the two of you got it all BACKWARDS!


I blame the lag.

LOL

Partnered? No...not me man....I have a RL sweety......so I just don't see the point in SL. It all just seems entirely goofy to me anyway.....but i think that is because so much of who I really am, is infused in my AV. And who I am......happens to be very happy with her RL love.
But.....so many of the people I know in SL are partnered.....and many I have witnessed become ridiculous dramas that have nearly ruined the SL expereince for them. I guess it all depends on what you're looking to get out of SL in the first place. Romance is a very powerful human condition, so to speak...so it only makes sense it would become so popular in SL.
I spose I could RP a partnership of sorts.....but more to just have a reliable hang out buddy...all the other stuff...I just can't take it seriously. I'm even in the process of getting rid of any and all sex related items I have. LOL Of course I had to see what it was all about when I first started...but now ....it's just silly. (I much prefer the RL version)

Now...IF my fiance could be in SL....and was into it.....I'm sure we'd be partnered....but he can't get reliable internet where he is (he's over seas) and he has ZERO interest in SL anyway. LOL

When I was a little boy (RL) I didn't have alot of friends. Whenever I moved to a new neighborhood I usually managed to find one boy to be my best friend, and we would do everything together. Of course we would sometimes play with other friends, but we each came first to each other. We could trust each other with secrets and count on each other to be there even if no one else would. We would stick up for each other. Together, we were stronger, and bullies would at least hesitate before giving us a hard time. As little kids, we were familiar with what each other liked to play, and could jump into a sophisticated game of pretend without needing alot of setup. Later, as older children, it was never a matter of who we would go out with, only where we would go and what we would do. Having this friend took away one of life's variables at a time when stability was extremely hard to come by. Growing up, I probably had a total of three friends like this during different periods, but I always considered them to be in the same class of friendship.

As an adult, sadly, I've grown apart from all of them for different reasons.

In SL, Adz's partner is like those one of those very special friends.
We have been "partners" since 2007-04-01. In my profile it reads "Special Friend:".

I am lucky enough to be partnered to someone who is now my real life love as well as my second life love.

See this silly grin on my face? Now you know why.

only if you enter such things frivolously and without respect...

my partner and i have over 2 years together here...and longer from before we came to SL...we share a love...it isnt real life...and wont be...but it is a love...and thats worth declaring.

Your world, your imagination... backwards is now just a state of mind.