This mornging while I was driving into work I always listen to the same radio station on the way in. Today, they were talking about a very interesting thing. Its a website called secondlife.com. In this website you can create and build a "avatar" or cartoon person... You make them do things, and build a world for them and so on. Anyways, a lot of married people are doing this, and they are making new lives for themselves through this site. You can do all sorts of things, everything to meeting other avatar people on the site to haveing sex and buying clothes with your people. Its endless what you can do, its just like being alive in the computer. Sort of.. haha.
now, they were asking listeners if they think that if it were cheating to be doing this while your in a relationship with someone. Personaly, I think that it is emotional cheating, which is just as much cheating as physicaly being in bed with another person. Where do you stand, do you think its cheating? What do you think about it? Are you apart of the site?
I think that this brings a whole new world to cheating and or getting to know someone else online. The old standards of cheating most people say if the person is sexual with another person, this day in age, maybe we should think of the new means of getting to know another human. Is it cheating? Updating the cheating guidelines would be a good idea, no? A few people called in to the show and said that they wouldnt have a problem with it, that its only over the internet, but as i know personally things on the internet can get deep, and you can really get to know someone on a completley different level than in person.
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I was reading some story about this a while back, about the wife going in and watching tv alone while the husband runs his virtual club in secondlife and enjoys his 'secondlife.' And I thought "whatever happened to compromising, and sharing interests?" She should be trying to get the knack of second life, he should be watching some tv sometimes.
We have to stop and adjust now and then, be aware that we're neglecting things that are interests we hold in common and not spending time together. I play some videogames with the lifemate that aren't my thing, and vice versa, and sometimes we both engage in activities with the kids that aren't our preferred thing - you do it to spend time together and strengthen your family.
That whole "she watches tv and he plays secondlife" story struck me as so sad.
I used to think spouses in games were no big deal, until I got to a point in life where it was personal - potentially my mate, or myself, engaging in it. And then that seemed very wrong to me.
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I can't belive that they are born smooth. lol....and you have to make them bumpy. thats cute. I could see how you can get 'into' something like SL, but its still cheating even if its online. :)
Thanks for all the comments :)
It might not pan out in the real world, but online relationships have this ability to become really deep, really quickly. I wouldn't want to mess with it and I sure as heck and glad that my BF isn't into being online!