From SL to RL

HAHAHA!!!
That's too funny. Love it

Pocket says:

"You may not remember, but when I first got to SL, yours was the first class I attended and you were so helpful and patient....you gave me a gorgeous white gown to wear and I will always remember that.... "

I am sorry I don't remember because I don't have classes, I don't teach anything in SL! I would love to take credit for a lovely memory like that, but it wasn't me! Sorry.

It is true that, while you think you know as much as you need to know via webcam, things CAN be different in RL. There is something to be said about the chemisty between two people, I mean in a scientific sense...pheramones and such. When I picked him up at the airport that evening (his flight was much later than mine), I saw him coming down the stairs to the baggage claim. I was nervous about if it would be an uncomfortable meeting. What would we do and say? Well, that was resolved right away. We grabbed each other and kissed and hugged and it was like coming home. We were comfortable with each other right away, and stayed like that, kissing, holding hands, walking arm in arm all ten days. And yes...DO meet in public. It is safer in any case.

-Blu-

My best friend in sl met her partner in sl and is now very happily married to him in rl. He is from UK and she is from USA. He now lives with her in the states and it warms my heart to see how happy my friend is.

It is like a real life fairy tale for them both

BB

I think SL relationships are highly overrated, I mean COME ON! a couple of 2 dimensional cartoons getting it on?LMAO !!!!!
Ok,seriously, I'm Blu's SL husband and hopefully soon to be RL husband too.
I never thought this could happen to me and to be honest,experiences with other "couples" on SL were not very encouraging either. I've been somewhat of a Dr. Phil is SL for a while untill I got tired of hearing all the drama stories of avatars crying on my shoulders and asking for advice.
Finding true love in an online game (yeah,I call it a game) is not something you should look for but rather something that happens to you.....or not.
Happiness in RL is the most important thing in the world,don't ever forget that.
You can have a great time in SL,but it's still fiction for the most part.
If you can find love or happiness through SL,that's great,if you can't get over it and move on......

Well lets see ...

Someone I knew way back invited a guy to come visit her from a chat room. HE ended up being older than her RL father.
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My sister in law left her husband and their kids without warning to go be with some guy she met online playing cards.

We had to wire her money to get back since he wouldn't even give her gas money when it didn't work out.
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My bother in law tried to convince his online Girlfriend to leave her husband and go with him to Reno.

She said no. My brother in laws wife found out and took a hammer to his computer.
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So ... Id have to say I know a couple of people who have had bad experiences with Online to RL stuff.

Point taken, but a meeting in public does at least give you a chance to get a "feel" for the RL person that I don't think you quite get online.

That is exactly how it was for us - I was sure it was going to be good, but still had a nervousness as I got off the plane. One look and it was like coming home, that's exactly the way to describe it.

At least she didn't use it on his head.

OMG, Blu and Duane on the forums!

You guys are very lucky to have found each other, even if I do puke in my mouth a little every time you guys get all cutesy and sometimes naughty. lol. JK, I miss you guys.
Haven't seen you online in awhile. Anywho-

Anything is possible. I met someone in SL, and we clicked over to RL. Not a romantic relationship, but this person has become a very very good friend of mine. So if it can work for friends, why not lovers?

For those who bring pieces of themselves into this game, wouldn't it only be natural to bond with someone in SL as you would in RL?

Broccoli, would be interested in that, as you possibly know or guess I am UK based too, and virtual worlds is an interest of mine, especially economics.

from what she said he did try to stop her ... till something like that was threatened.

Happens more then we think, I knew at least 6 couples in my everquest guild who had met in game and brought the releationship to the Real World. and that was just in one medium sized guild on one EQ server.

Some dont work out, just like any relationship (what? your not 7'3" tall with DD brests??).
but if your looking I think on line games and worlds seem to be the new "single bar" ....lot safer too imho.

that is how it was with my husband and I when we first met, that first time at the airport

now over a year later we are still holding hands, kissing, and totally head over heals in love

he melts me... completes me.. and I would not change a thing!

Coming home is the perfect way to describe it... a strange surreal feeling, walking into a house that immediately feels like home, yet it is the first time you have ever been there.

Mind you, if Everquest is similar to World of Warcraft my avatar would look stunning in real life,.....and get arrested on first sight by a UK Policeman chuckle

Interesting........not sure if it happens in WoW, maybe I will ask around

Congrats blu....

We're with you also, me and Geo met in SL 16 months ago, he came over to the UK in July 2007 and we got married in RL on 27th December.

We are in the UK at the moment and are due to depart for the states in June for a couple of months to check on the house we're having built (yes, at first he did try work out how many prims it would have been in SL lol) and then its just the final part of our immigration to sort out.

We and many others are living proof of SL moving into RL with great results - we were very similar to you, we spent hours and hours on SL and skype before he came over, and although alot of times in SL we would fight like cat and dog, we are totally compatible in RL - a perfect match.... We have found our missing bits in eachother (and we dont mean attatchments!!)

We both had partners before in SL that didnt work out, and we both went through the traumas that SL relationships can bring, so I can see why people who havnt yet found their soulmate in SL would not understand it and maybe only see the bad, but you gotta kiss a few frogs before you find your prince!

we still drop into SL occasionally, to see old friends, and we have a myspace to keep all our SL friends up to date with what we are doing.

Good luck to you both, and to every other couple who met in SL, or online that are moving things into RL

It is so very cool to know there are several people in successful relationship in RL because of SL. Hmmmm wonder if I should open up a dating service. LOL

-Blu-

Blu- You can just add it to the rest of the stuff you own and operate! Lol, matchmaking by the pool, on a bike...possibilities are endless!

LOL Letty! Well, I haven't been in-world much lately...mostly because I have SL issues with lag...well, really my computer connection issues I think. Anyway, I don't know if a dating service would work or not in SL...but I am gonna think about it for sure. lol. Who knows...maybe I could be responsible for more successful couples! LOL

See ya at the bar soon I hope.
-Blu-

Just over 6 months ago I plucked up courage to go meet my darling Yavanna in real life.

Since then we have seen each other most weeks, been on holiday together (to beautiful Oslo) and had half a dozen lovely weekends away.

I am so happy, I can't wait until next summer when we can live together - we are four hours away at the moment, and I can't move until my son finishes his exams.

/me goes off in a purry, sappy mood

Maybe im a bit late for the thread, but here is my story.
Last year in may i decided to install SL on my computer because i was bored, i did some shopping and clubing, explored the world and finally ended in a club i liked.
In this club i meet a woman from sweden and we talked a bit, the next days we meet again and had allways a good time chating and fooling around.
Over the time this developed into a SL-Romance and we spend the next 6 months in our little dreamworld. Then we realized that it is maybe the time to know more about each other and we started to exchange pictures and talked over skype. At the beginning of march we finaly meet in RL and it really worked great between us. The good thing is that my job allows me to live everywhere in europe and so i will move at the end of may from germany to sweden.
When people tell me that SL relationships are nothing serious i only smile and tell them that some are different.

Congrats I just moved from the states to Australia to be with my sl partner in RL were engaged and the big day is in September, I couldnt be happier Hope everything works out great for you too.
Tee

I am so excited to learn of all the successful SL to RL relationships! Now, if we could only get the emigration thing sorted out, it would be wonderful. Being apart is so hard creates stress. It may be over a yr before he can come to live out here. THAT is the worst part.

-Blu-

Maybe we should create a group for all that folks that meet in SL so we can share our stories ,problems and stuff.

Great idea! Volunteers??

Count me in on that one