Fallen in love in SL then RL?

Would love to talk to any couples that met in SL (or Wow, CoH, or any MMO) and then began dating in RL. I've posted here before- I'm making a documentary, possibly for HBO, and have a section on Romance in MMOs that could use some good stories!

I'm really looking for people in NYC, or in driving distance, so I can point a camera at you and you can pretend you're in When Harry Met Sally!

Thanks,

Victor

[email]victor@purewestmedia.com[/email]

no help from me lol i met my beloved in highschool but there's a dating site out there called http://www.mmodating.com/ (note i just visited it and it seems to be having some mysql error problems at the moment) but you might be able to find some help there as well

God, journos are smarmy tossers sometimes.

I could make up a very bogus story for your entertainment factor. You journalists are pretty big into overly dramatic crap aren't you?

Post of the day!

What do you mean "sometimes"? Surely that was redundant...

... possibly for Sky Drivel 7

Well i think you got a heck of a storey lol
Online dating is hard , i know it well first rosin it is hard people expect the person to look like there av , second resin some people lie about there age/sex/how they look
i have always felt do not come in to any online dating unless your welling to look past what you seeand love some one for there heart and soul.

I've been in SL a long time (almost 2 1/2 years now) and when it comes to relationships, SL is a double edged sword. I have had friends who have met in SL and gotten married in RL; and on the flip side, I have had friends who's mariages have been destroyed by SL. As to which happens more often I can not say.

me and my guy meet at 1st via mobile phones then meet him in person then he signed me up to sl now we also live our love through sl lmao sounds weird i no

I met Chris on SL May 28th 2005 and we decided to meet up in RL August 15th and i wub him *snuggles*

Pass the sick bucket.

something i'm curious about... the people who have real life husbands and wives but they're married to different people on SL and their husbands/wives are also married to someone else O_o just seems a bit odd to me.. *clutches boyfriend protectively*

Any chance you live in the NYC Area?

-the smarmy tosser

He's smarmy, but he's cute.

Well, I think Garth and Pituca are probably the most well-known. (Their last names were Fairlight and Chang when they started playing SL, and now they've had their last names merged somehow into FairChang.) Garth was in the UK and Pituca was over here stateside, and he came out and visited her last year and they did a road trip in California. I believe they are married now in real life, but I'm not sure which one of them moved, or if they both did, and where they might be living now.

Met my Love in SL...3 weeks after he told me the feelings he had for me, he moved here to be with me. If you wanna know more, ask. I live about an hour and a half from NYC, so not hard to get to.

That sounds like the exact same story I was about to tell, only the names were Washu and Damien. Hamlet wrote a story about it in NWN back before they were married, I think.

i like you.

This seems like the story with most games or chat channels where people can communicate freely.

I've met previous girlfriends on IRC and I've known several others who have also. Overall I've seen far more relationships that were destoyed by chat or games than created by them (not an insignificant number, I can probably count 10+ if I thought about it that I've personally known).

When one couple I knew got together (they met over chat) they put strict time limits in their household on their chat activities to prevent their current relationship from becoming a victim of what destroyed their previous ones :^).

Well here's my story.

4 years ago I was playing Ultima Online (2D RPG game)
And there I met a naked lady on her unicorn.
She noticed that I was speaking dutch to my dutch friends.
So she joined the conversation.

Apperantly she was from Belgium.
The careless way she picked her words made it clear that she was actualy a he irl.

and not to mention...who would ever sit nude on a unicorn...rather then someone who is male irl...we all know women care more about looks of their character.

Anyways...so we talked.
She/he became one of my best friend online.
We did everything together.
We went killing together , we said goodnight too eachother before we logged out , we logged out together.
He moved in with me in my Large Tower.

He started to ask me if he could see me irl.

I always said 'sure...someday' (and with someday I usual mean never)
We traded real pictures...sure he looked fine.
But still...picking up a guy from the internet was soooo not my style.

After 4 months of continuesly whinning to meet me...I decided to give in.
I met him at my home...I saw him and I was like 'OMG he's even prettier IRL!'

We fell in love and we even decided that same weekend to have a relationship.


So there you go.

As for today...I still have a relationship with him (with the naked lady on the unicorn)
We did seperate one year...but true love brought us back together and i'm never going to let him go
He was the first one I ever fell in love with.

Is this one of those situations in which the smarmy tosser (tm) in question should be asked if he/she/it got this particular bit of video-voyeurism cleared for landing by the appropriate Lindenlabbers?

I met G quite by accident on SL. A relationship was the furthest thing from my mind at the time. Repeated interaction became a habit, which became a relationship, and since we decided to "what-the-hell-let's-meet-IRL" things have been ...amazing!

So many stories of VR-to-RL being such hell, I was and am constantly surprised, shocked and greatful every single day I"m able to see him here. Having spent 2 weeks IRL together only further benchmarked the feelings we'd had since November.

I've had my share of relationships, though this is the first online-based and/or LDR I've ever fallen into, and I can't say I regret it at all. I think it's something everyone should experience at least once. For me, it wasn't really a decision. Can't control where my heart takes me. Yay!

-Myke

I can shed more light on that, hit me up at the Ant when you see me next.

i was addicted to Eveqrqest and attended a convention, there i met my wife and the mother of my children, so KINDA met due to mmo game