Keeping it fresh...in pixel world

Im partnered..to a fab guy...have been with him for almost a year in SL..

Long term relationships change over time as your interests widen....

How do you keep your partnership....fresh? What sorta stuff do you do...the same? new? Any places you go when youre both a little jaded with life/SL...that revitalise you?

I married my SL partner... in RL
everyday is fresh and new for us...

Congrats! Nice to see some couples with staying power.

We just celebrated our 1 year anniversary in January. We are both busy people rl so time inworld is limited. It's a matter of finding new stuff to do and sharing. We love to go dancing and are getting more into live music. The other day we went ice skating at Noob Island. We went shopping for a couples walk and ended up playing basketball at Abranimations. Little fun stuff like that helps keep things going. He's finally learning how to build, so I help him there... there is a lot to share.

Something I've found is doing things alone, as well as together, keeps things a little more fresh - allows for each to find new things, and show them off to the other.

For something different, try random Stargate hopping, perhaps?
(find a stargate, and try /d random - if it's one of the more common ones, it should dial a random Stargate for you...just click on the event horizon in the gate, and it will give you a TP destination)

Love those couple walks

Thats totally cool! congratulations...xx

Thanks
it is a very much fairytale romance (I will not bore you with the details)

and I would do it all again in a heartbeat

Agreed about the doing things alone...i love to get some time to make sometihng..and "show it off"...usually met with howls of laughter lol (kidding) Havent tried the stargate hopping...will investiagte-thanks x

Yes, because of rl, we have plenty of alone time, so the time spent together is very special to us. Nothing is routine.

Okay, am I the only one who doesn't know about the Stargate thing? Do you mean you just type random things in 'Search' then teleport to the 1st place? Wouldn't it just usually be a shop?


As for a suggestion to keep it fresh, some were talking about wearing a different shape/skin on another thread, and how being a different gender made them feel. Maybe you and your husband could switch genders? Create alt accounts on the same day. You could shop together for male/female stuff and give each other pointers. It would give you a whole different perspective on things. Might also be interesting later on in the evening...

Oohhh...Stargates are kind of fun.

Are you familiar with the movie Stargate? And the way the Stargate looks?
You may have seen these in SL before, and probably thought they were static items.

There is a stargate network, and most of these things are linked to that network.

So, when you tell the stargate to dial a destination, it gets the SLURL info from the network.

However, most stargates are made with a "random" setting...meaning, they pick a random stargate on the network, and get the SLURL for it.

So, when you stand within chat range of a stargate, and ask it to dial random (the /d random command), you might end up in some places you never thought to look.

(rarely are they shops, in my experience)

Genders? How about switching partners instead?

From what I've seen it's a carousel as far as people switching up, back and forth in the dating game. Marriages and partnerships don't last. Few couples do as mentioned above but if you can do it, great. But just like I won't come to sl to work I also won't come here to stay cooped up.

Besides, where's the fun in being hog tied? Different strokes, different folks.

Wow! That seems fantastic! I can't wait to log in later on and try this, (been kind of bored lately). I am familiar with the Stargate movies/series, just didn't know about it in SL. I think I know of one gate, at least it looked very 'stargatey', next to the Grendel's Children entrance but didn't know about the /d random command. Thank you for the tip, Joseph!

Ricardo, you're my favourite pessimist!

This is how I imagine you look like at work in RL?


Capt. Brad Bellick from Prison Break

Isabeau, I didn't know about them either.

Thanks for the info on the Stargates, Joseph ... I've been wondering what those were for since I first started.

Pessimist Extraordinaire.

Like that but meaner. I'll even ask 'may I?' when busting heads.

Nah, I'm one of the nicer C.O.'s. in the joint.

"HAWT"..in a "I chew my nails before swallowing " sortve way

~Lana

I hear bathing helps with that fresh feeling too

That can be fun too. I had my alt logged in one day and he came along and picked her up. Another time, I made a pass at his alt. In both cases, it made for some very interesting role playing.

The best way to keep your relationship fresh is not to think of Second Life as a "pixel world". The last I heard we are are real people and not pixels.

pixel world...not pixel people susie

yupppp...bathing for the zesty fresh feeling (wiseass lol)

Fai, TopCard and I do a lot together ...always trying something new. We ride horses and Jeeps down protected roads. I take him for rides in my helicopter and he takes me in his boat. We seadoo, explore...end up in some crazy places lol. Quiet times together are hiking through Botanical, just being at home landscaping or building beside each other.

Meh. My RL Fiancee of 7 yrs hates SL cuz "there's too many old people".

She tolerates it, just doesnt like coming in.

She's also the one who bought me the Premium Account for Valentine's Day, which says ALOT.

ummm whats that got to do with anything about this post?