Reasoning behind your partnership status

Been with my sl partner for over a year and after long consideration we partnered linden style in March, not any great wedding, just with friends and telling each other our feelings in public. For us it will always be sl, never rl, does not mean I love him any the less or that our relationship does not have validity. For some people on sl they dont want that, and that is fine, for us, we found something neither of us expected to find, and why not enjoy it. Soar

I am going to get a few things out of the way.


1. I am not currently committed to a Rl relationship, but was recently, she was fine enough with Sl and it's happenings.
2. I am heavily opinionated, and in this situation it won't change, this is going to be dripping with sarcasm and probably insults (I haven't written it yet, so I don't know.) so if you don't like either of those things, please don't read it, I tell you this as a courtesy...


Now then, on the subject of Sl romance and how it plays out I, being the hopeless romanticist that I am, support it wholly and have even found myself 'romantically involved' with people in Sl. Now to clarify, I mean what I said, I realize there is a difference in Rl and Sl relations (mainly being that of a literal physical connection) but don't see why people can't become romantically involved via avatars and text. It happens with dating sites which produces the ability to actually meet the person. Sl is doing nothing different, just removing the need to personally know who you are involved with.

My number one point on this... no matter what the situation is, or what the result is, I believe free will should be free will, and anything that happens between two consenting adults, should be completely legal and not be punished or frowned upon in any way. Whether it be sexual activities, assisted suicide, homosexual marriage, polygamy, or even cult murder, if the people involved were consenting adults, I don't care. It was their choice, we shouldn't be preaching out beliefs from atop our bloated hot aired ego's about what we think is right. For instance, I support gay marriage, human equality, and animal rights activists, what I don't approve of, is the fact that we have army recruiters in schools and malls. Now, that having been said, I am going to lose no sleep over it, nor will I try to change it. Those people want to be there, and they have the right to, they also have the right to peddle their wears, even if it is trading lives for money and benefits (a deal I myself even considered for a time). It's their choice, just like it's the choice of the people who join to make that trade.

If two people want to become romantically involved through Second Life, World of Warcraft, Everquest online, E-Harmony, or any other medium for that matter, I say have at it. It's your choice, its their choice, safeguard your heart like you would in real life, and enjoy yourself.


But that's just my take. As I said, it's pure opinion.

I'm partnered, but you won't find that in the "Partner" box in my profile...because LL was too shortsighted to allow for the possibility that one might have more than one partner.

I voted no because I'm not officially partnered as far as the profile box is concerned, but I am in a relationship. I guess I'm doing the SL equivalent of "living in sin". I have a partner but we aren't "married".

We both believe in keeping everything strictly SL - so there's no possibility of the relationship moving to RL.

During my time in SL, I have been partnered ... I THINK ... twice now.

Both times it was to someone I love very much in real life. The first time was with her original account and while we were dating long distance.

The second time was to her alt account (she lost the first) and after we decided we were going to get married.

At present, neither of us are partnered within SL (last I checked on her end anyway) and more than likely it will remain that way for some time.

IF an instance comes about where we decide to engage in RP with someone else and IF it goes down that road ... More than likely it will be much the same as with Ceera.

Three months i have been in SL, and for the first two i always thought that this partnering thing was 'just another' fun feature that you get in game, but then i found out that some ppl really take it seriously and seems even get married and take it to RL......

so now i have taken back the thought of partnering someone in SL (i actually did thought of finding someone in game to be partnered to just for fun) since i am taken in RL, so i'm not available if it involve such serious feelings.

I tried to persuade my RL gf to come play SL with me, but she just refused bluntly, haha. So i guess i will be staying single in SL. Well that is unless i decide to partner my alt.

I learned to look out more for me