This is the story that I refer to in my previous post about RLC Marriage.  I thank Verns_Dream for the inspiration and ideas.  Keep them coming :).  Enjoy the story (minor editing only)

When I first heard about RLC, I was skeptical...I had used MSN messenger with some friends to play backgammon and we chatted there, but I had never even thought of doing a virtual chat room. The idea appealed to me because I thought, here is my chance to go and be someone who can do the things that I would never do in real life. I wanted to become a tramp...someone who would sleep with anyone and everyone without any of the commitments. It took me less than a day to realize that I couldn't be someone in RLC that I couldn't be in real life. I quickly found myself acting the same, talking the same, caring the same and behaving the same as I do in real life. As it turns out, I made so many friends just being me that eventually I started to wonder what it was about me that attracted people to me so easily.

I had a couple of brief love encounters. Nothing lasting, nothing totally meaningful. Although I will say that I did feel something for each of my partners. I never had sex with someone without getting to know them. I soon found myself not having sex just for the sake of having sex. I soon found myself realizing that what I had heard from the seasoned veterans was true. Behind each avi, behind each keyboard is a real person.

One day in Blu's I ran into someone who had been on my friends' list for quite sometime. Apparently, according to him, we had met one day when I was sitting on a bench in the street, alone. He sat down across from me and we had a conversation. Before the end of the conversation, we had added each other as friends and that was the last we had spoken until this day in Blu's. Honestly, I didn't even remember him. I think at the time I was in the middle of a blooming relationship with someone I had met at Bordello. When I met my old friend from the past, we danced, we had some fun with a couple of other people who were also dancing and we ended up sitting together in a booth and having a long conversation. Fast forward to the next couple of weeks. We had become very good friends over those first couple of weeks. We spent almost all of our time in rlc together, talking on the beach, in the park, wherever we could find some peace and quiet to get to know each other better. I found myself being pulled toward this person as though I was falling in love.....but I remember thinking to myself, "This is silly! How can you fall in love with someone this way?" As the days went by, the man I had met in Bordello had also become close to me. We were to the point that we were talking several times a day on the phone. The feelings between the two of us were growing at the same time.

And then, out of nowhere, I remember thinking I had to make a choice. It wasn't fair to either one of these men for me to keep building a relationship with each of them. There was a lot of soul searching and a lot of imagining what kind of Internet relationship I could have with each of them. I chose the man who I thought would bring me the most happiness and stability. I chose the man who I felt wasn't here in RLC to fuck every female avi he came in contact with. I chose the man who I will be marrying in RLC on May 14.

I can say now after nearly 12 weeks of being with him that what we have is love....real, honest to god love. I think about him 24/7. I run to my computer every chance to be with him. We share everything with each other. The downside is that he is in the UK...I am in the States. The time difference is a killer sometimes...but we have managed. We spend every moment we can together in RLC, in MSN messenger, and any other way we can find to be together. Since meeting him, I have been true to him and he has been true to me. I have been tempted and resisted because I love him so much and I would never disrespect him by having an affair.

When I heard about people getting married in RLC, I thought to myself, "doesn't that defeat the purpose of coming here?" But now I see that everyone comes here for a different reason. Some for the sex, some for the conversation, some for the friendships. Myself, I found something that I wasn't even looking for. I found love.

We have discussed our relationship and we have every intention of treating this as a real life marriage in every sense of the word. We have discussed making plans to meet each other in real life...and if asked I would move across the ocean to be with him. I love him that much.

I have several friends who have become couples...some have gotten married in RLC, some are just exclusive couples. Some have a special someone they spend time with when both parties are in rlc and then enjoy the company of someone else when here alone (I still don't understand that concept)....like I said...everyone is looking for something different here.

I have known a few couples who have met someone, married that special someone, and then got a virtual divorce all in a matter of a couple of months. Personally, I intend for my marriage to last.

The wedding planning is more than I thought it would be. Every detail has to be just right. The coordination of the JOP, the DJ, the wedding party, the guests....it all is taking a good deal of time and energy and planning. But I do it because for me, this marriage is real. I suppose we could just tell everyone we are married and act as a married couple. But for us, this wedding means more. It means that we are husband and wife and we will treat each other with the same respect that we would give to any partner in real life because for both of us...this is more than just a virtual marriage!

Does everyone who gets married in RLC feel the same as us? Who knows? Only time will tell if those other relationships will last. But I know deep in my heart, as sure as the air that I breath, that my marriage here in RLC will last forever.