What happens when you "un-partner" with someone?

That almost happened to me also, the almost partner disappearing on me.

{one rather annoying thing is that I saw that they had been on (someone had mentioned seeing them/group listed last login date) almost a month after they disappeared, but that is for a nonexistent thread}

I thought it was $25L to partner and $100L to un-partner.

Well, the best way to do that would be to partner with a Linden and then departner them. Volunteers? We could ask Brenda if she'd be willing to do that with Dan ...

I'd say you were a miserable old trout but ...

I just threw up in my mouth.......

Sexy.

Well, I'm not partnering with him, that's for sure. You and I are the only two who wrote anything, so it has to be you. Besides, Cupid Linden just banned me.

Too funny. Someday I'm going to get in trouble at work for laughing at these threads, and you and Brenda especially, Trout. (Shouldn't be reading at work, but.....<shrugs>

Dear [Real Name]

Greetings, Mr/Mrs. [Real Name] (a.k.a., [Avatar Name]). Congratulations! You may already be eligible for Second Life's brand new divorce court! Not sure? Well Mr./Mrs. [Real Name] has indicated that they would like to see [Avatar Name] in our spanking new divorce court (note, spanking is not figurative)! So please, Mr./Mrs. [Real Name], log in immediately to see if you have won a day in our court.

Why might [Real Name] wish to see you in court? Well, it appears [Real Name] found out (the items in bold apply in your case): 1) that you are really a [man/woman/were telling the truth when you kept saying you were really a cat in real life], 2) humping a [sheep/dog/horse/other animal] on the side, 3) sound like [Pee Wee Herman/James Earl Jones/Mr. T/Sylvestore Stallone/Barney/other] in real life (thanks to Integrity, your current partner knows what you sound like), 4) that you [are/are not] married in real life (thanks again, Integrity), 5) are [Bill/Hillary Clinton] in real life, 6) are George W. Bush in real life, or 7) (a) [insert one word here].

Pictures of you humping a sheep/goat/Donald Trump have been included as evidence. Pictures of you wearing/not wearing white after Labor Day are included as evidence. Pictures used as proof of your gender, along with sound clip, and video collected by Integrity have been included as evidence. Please be aware that failure to show up at the brand new divorce court will result in: 1) being forced to be naked Ruth for the next real life year, or 2) having all assets turned over to your current partner, or 3) permanent banishment from Second Life, or 4) a 10 Linden fine, or 5) your immortal soul turned over to Linden Lab.

Anyway, life goes on. We at LL are sure you'll get over it eventually. We hope you are enjoying your SL experience as much as we are. And we hope you enjoy being chained naked and spanked in our divorce court as the proceedings are active. We promise that we aren't laughing at you right now. We will be during your court case, but just not right now.

Eternal Love, Peace and Immortal Blessings,

Roscoe P. Linden

A rought draft. Feel free to improve on it.

A couple of friends partnered their alts. But she deleted her alt. His profile still shows them partnered. It has only been about two months though, so maybe that will change once she's completely purged from the database. Her profile no longer exists though.

I AM however interested in Cherry's experiment!

She deleted it? Ah well good, it was a crappy name

I didn't marry my alt in the end last night, and now I don't need to YAY ...

Dear (Real Person),

You got dumped.

Roscoe Linden.


sometimes rippin that bandage off is better......

have to agree

Hands up everyone with a partner ...... put your hand down (Real Person).

Linden Control

Where does one find the link in SL for the divorce. The partnership was easy to find but I can't find the one to end it.

THank you.

go to Your Account, or click the partnership link..i think

Dear Second Life Resident:

You know that warm, comfortable feeling you get knowing someone loves and wants to be with you?

Get over it.

When unpartnering you may be told to get in line as this is something that happens constantly.

Funny this should come up . . . a dear friend of mine got unpartnered rather recently, and didn't take the email very well.

I talked to the ex in question about it--we're still on good terms--and she gave me the notecard that she'd tried to give to my friend but that my friend never got due to a prolonged absence from Second Life (which was pretty much the reason for the departnering in the first place.) She did her best to explain her reasons, but, unfortunately, the message didn't get through before feelings got majorly hurt.

It's a messy situation, and not one I really relish the thought of being in. I may consider partnering with an alt to save myself the trouble.

thanks for that Marin, I guess we know that partners don't disappear from the partner box if the profile disappears...

my next curiosity is... if you are partnered to an avatar whose profile no longer shows up, and you want to be partnered with a new partner.. is this bigamy? Would they send a mail saying "Hey you cant do that, you are partnered already"?

imogen

owch...>_<!

Dear SecondLife Resident,

You know that warm, comfortable feeling you get knowing someone loves and wants to be with you?

well nows the time to get that puppy you been thinking about.

fixed

It seems rather archaic that Lindens would send an email notification about this at all. It's as silly as the phone company sending a sympathy card, no? What does an impersonal corporation have to do with my relationships? It's.....absurd. There is no email they could send that would NOT be absurd. An email from LL on this matter is absurd by definition.

Perhaps, but haven't we all come to expect the absurd from LL?

Maybe the Email of Death is really just a left over from way way way back in the day when you had to email LL for both requests to partner and to un-partner (before there was an automated system on the website here you had to email [email]goodstuff@lindenlab.com[/email]).

In fact, for the dissolution of my first SL partnership, in Oct of '04, I received NO email from LL, and it took almost two weeks for the little "Partner" slot on my profile to go blank without any fanfare or email confirmation (the little blank spot was sad confirmation all on it's own).

Maybe when they got the automated system in place, some tender heart thought it kind to inform the disenfranchised party.

For the most part, I would think it is just a single line of code in an existing system that only receives attention when someone complains that the wording is a little harsh. They probably just keep changing the response, worried that deleting it will break the whole system.

If you go to the Partner Page from the website, and are already partnered, your only option is to dissolve your current partnership. Once that is accomplished, the page changes back to asking who you want to ask to be your partner.

I agree in principal. There is no mass-produced message in existence I think that could combat the spectrum of reaction that unpartnering can generate ... but I imagine *any* message informing you of the event will most likely stop you or anyone else looking at a mebbe unexplained and unheralded blankness in your partner slot and contact LL or raise a ticket needlessly and wastefully.
It might be a Dear John letter but it's closure