Your opinions please....

It's just as real...but it's not the same. If we used strictly your example, I have cheated in my fantasies and dreams all my life. It's more than just emotional...you need the *ability* to connect tangibly for it to reach critical mass...

I understand the word 'cheating' is fully subjective...I'm not disagreeing with anyone on this matter. I'm giving my opinion, and what I've seen and experienced in my life.

Just a thought but can the person who started the thread tell me what he'd think if his wife was found to be 'playing' with a guy in sl ??

Yes. It doesn't always work (to each is own), but a general rule-of-thumb would be to put yourself in the other person's shoes...if you don't like how that makes you feel...stop doing it.

I know a guy who had a SL girlfriend.

His RL live-in Girlfriend started playing SL.

He wanted to keep dating his SL girlfriend, but not let his RL girlfriend date.

I agree that physical contact is not needed for a relationship to be considered real. Relationships carried out by correspondence, be it telephone or written means have been going on long before Tipper forced Al to invent the internet. If you are in a real life relationship, and what you are doing here is something that your RL aprtner would not approve of, or it is something you would not admit to doing, then it could be cheating. It is all predicated on the dynamics of your RL relationship, only you and your partner can answer for sure.

Do you think Tipper did that because secretly behind all that political PMRC nonsense shes a ravenous cyber-slut and wanted to engage in multiple online affairs?

Tipper if you are reading this, IM me.

its really dangerous to get emotionally involved with someone online or offline that you have no intention of ever being with. Thats really common sense and to say any different is foolish. Even if you are not here to hook up you better be very very careful who you decide to get messed up with. what the OP is doing is incredibly irresponsible and potentially cruel. but ok in best case scenerio if you insist on doing this : make damn sure your play partner is someone who never ever wants to know you in real life and then you can both hope for the best. But truthfully and honestly the right thing to do is NOT GET INVOLVED with someone when you are happily married. tbh if i found out my rl husband was having an emotional affair online in a game id leave him so quick it would make his head spin.

would he need an anim to make his head spin? I'm sure he could get one this near halloween....

Dang, girl, you going to night lawyer school or something?

Only lawyers have vocabulary?

Vo..voc...vocabu..lary?

I like that word. Wassit mean? =P

Yes

They pick it up from defendants trying to explainatiate the circumstantial of their unfourtunautical incarceration.

The answer to this particular question with never be found here no matter how many threads get started. But it can be found quite easily:

Ask your conscience. Ask your RL partner.

You will get very clear answers very fast.

Strange that the person who posted hasnt replied again yet...I wonder if he saw some responses he didnt want to see or answer

Naw, Brenda just sounded smarter than usual.

Here are the official responses from previous threads:

a) It's definitely cheating

b) It's not cheating as long as both of you agree it's ok

c) It's not cheating at all. It's not like you're really touching or anything.

I'm sure I missed some, but that's the gist of it.

You want my personal opinion? It's cheating plain in simple, however, I don't believe polyamorous relationships are healthy in any way. Before anyone starts to jump on me for my response, I am ONLY stating my opinion based on my own life experiences. I'm NOT trying to change anyones opinion here in any way. I don't have that much energy. lol

/me whips off her pants and waves them in.......... HEY!!

I think Hitler's pony said it was cheating.

/me takes snapshots for his "Girls of the Forum gone wild" Photo display.

You're not gonna black mail us with those, are you???

Nope, I had planned on large pictures displayed in an art gallery somewhere.

All evidence forwarded to Trout for evaluation, I trust...

Nope, Trout can get his own pictures. I took these at great risk to life and limb.

Oh listen to you, Miss Pole Dance on the Bar at The Halloween Party.......

How is it not cheating? Do we not all know people who met their current spouses over the internet? I know people who have divorced their spouses to be with someone they met on the internet.

Having said that..... I have a good RL friend who keeps contemplating joining the game. We have agreed (and our RL partners approve) that if he does join the game, we will be partnered as a means of protection against perverts. But, then again, we won't be engaging in cyber sex. We'll be hanging out.