Married for 10 years... in COH for 5 of them.
Congrats on dinging 10!
My wife and I have just hit our 5 year anniversary this year, but I can say that I 100% agree with your secrets to success.
Congrats on level ten. Now you can get debt!
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
Stated on Twitter but I will say it here too: Happy Anniversary!
also: my wife and I have been playing this game together longer than we have been married - 7 yrs
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Nice! I just dinged 9 months with my boyfriend. Not as good, but geek love is always special.
You two look adorable together. Thanks for being so darn awesome!
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I am Lord Omi. Now and forever. They can take our City, but they can't take me.
Gratz, DR and BS. 10 years is a good roadmark to hit.
Be well, people of CoH.
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Congrats.
Still single as the day I was born and actually pretty happy that way.
Still, I'd like to know why most women's first reaction to me is "GAH! Get away from me!" and then sprint like FloJo.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
But seriously, big congratz on the 10th anniversary you guys! If everything goes our way we'll be sharing your 20th anniversary as well
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THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
MUCH love and congratz!!!
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it holds five years of shared stories, ideas, laughs, tears, memories, failures, triumphs, hardships, successes, friendships, and sheer goofiness.
Just like our marriage. |
It's very easy to see that John and Michelle love each other if you spend any time around them at all - even when they're grousing at each other, that love is still there, under it all. They compliment each other nicely, and they truly are stronger together than apart.
They've also surprised me by becoming two of the best friends I could have hoped to find. While I certainly wasn't expecting that when they moved up here to Seattle, I really don't object.
Happy anniversary, you two.
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations!
Iiiiinteresting... you know, Doctor Leo is currently on Triumph to help with a Really Hard Way attempt. I'm pretty sure he'd like to meet this "nun" of yours. |
She is my "time-bending, troublemaking, techie pagan nun."
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
Grats to M and J for their achievement. You might not know this, but the 10th anniversary is Spandex.
I just did 17 and it was Separate Vacations.
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Wanted to contribute my Gratz! on your Marriage Level Up!
Here's to many many more Levels!
Mike
/And yeah, the "You can get debt!" made me chuckle too. Hehe.
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Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012
Congratulations to you both, Samuraiko!
May you continue to enjoy shared stories, ideas, laughs, memories, triumphs, successes, friendships, and sheer goofiness throughout the rest of your life-long marriage! And may any hardships bring you closer together, failures lead to better successes, and tears be of happiness. *hugs*
Gratz and many more.
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Happy Anniversary, Samuraiko! It looks like you have a good set of rules there, I've been given similar advice.
Here's to 10 more years!
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Congratulations!
And a fantastic post.
@Cylar and I have been together for 14 years. Gaming through the real end of Star Wars Galaxies (we left shortly after the NGE) and here pretty much ever since.
Not happy about losing this game at all. Funny enough, we do a lot together, but we often play separately (we do play together as well, of course).
She's holding out hope and pitching in with the efforts, but she rarely ever comes to the forums (because I tell her all really terrible stories about all of you! You know... the truth!).
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Today is the 10th anniversary of @Blood Speaker and me being married. Through a year-and-a-half-long engagement, a comedy of errors wedding at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, moves from Tucson to Phoenix to Seattle, multiple job changes, and three separate gaming groups, we are still together.
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(There should be veteran rewards for marriage. Badges, at least, since it IS an achievement!)
A couple secrets of our success:
1) Never going to bed angry at each other. Even if that means saying right before going to bed, "I'm angry, but I'm tired, and I want to get some sleep so we can discuss this more rationally in the morning" - the problem has been acknowledged and we know we'll be talking.
2) No relationship games. We agreed on that the first day we started dating. Both of us had gone through that with previous partners and were heartily sick of it.
3) Maintaining both shared and separate interests and friends. We do not do EVERYTHING together. Sometimes that means 'me time'. It is not a privilege - it is a right.
All that being said... one of the things we DO share is CITY OF HEROES. John got started in January of 2007. (He'd heard about the game from the outset, but said he would never play until he could play a villain, damn it. For Christmas 2006, his friends got him a CoV account.) I got started in March. Took me until July to be able to play more than 5 minutes without getting motion sickness, so at first I played on his account. (I also was the one to unlock Kheldians on his account because his first 50 was actually a villain, while mine was a hero.)
Then I got my own account. And we have been playing COH pretty much nonstop ever since.
Oh sure, we've tested the waters of other MMOs - we both tried AION for about a year. No, thank you. John also plays TSW, LotRO and STO (he's a big fan of their source materials). And we both play RIFT. But COH is home. We have NEVER let our accounts lapse. Even when we were down-and-out broke, we made sure we had the $30/month to maintain our subscriptions. The other MMOs would come and go, but COH was OUR GAME. This was entertainment whenever we wanted, as often as we wanted. Instead of dinner and a movie, it was crockpot night and COH.
Strangely enough, our characters have never been romantically involved. None of them on either side. (Here's a side note: my Freedom incarnation of my signature character, Johanna Sinclair, is actually married to Leandro's Doctor Leo. And yes, John knows. He thinks it's funny because Jo's Triumph incarnation is a nun.) Although one of his characters is kinda-sorta the father of one of mine. It's a long story.
When we found out that COH was being closed, we both cried. Even in the other games we play together, it still wasn't OUR game. Paragon City and Grandville are home for us. We have met several friends IRL thanks to befriending them in COH (including the friends who helped us move to Seattle when we made a fresh start on our lives). And now it feels like we're not only being forcibly evicted, but that we're being forced to stand and watch as it's torn down behind us.
This game holds not just our characters and the friendships we've formed throughout the community - it holds five years of shared stories, ideas, laughs, tears, memories, failures, triumphs, hardships, successes, friendships, and sheer goofiness.
Just like our marriage.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)