Poll Who's Married, Shacking, Single?
 

Due to the large number of young below marriage age members, my wife and I were wondering just how many married couples, gay or straight, there are on Tos, SOOO... Here's the poll.

!) Married

2)living together

3) Single

I'm in the "Single". How weird :S

Single, forever.

I don't need anyone. They'd only get in my way.

Also, this poll should have been expanded to include "dating" as an option, because there are lots of people doing that.

Since people can change their relationship status over time, you might need a poll every few years Niri Te. ;)

Poll Who's Married, Shacking, Single?
 

Single.....

Dating for 3 years now...idk what to put

If your sweetie lives with you, then you are in the "Shacking up" category.

What about people in a relationship that aren't living with the other person??

No, we are only 18...our parents wouldn't allow it

Then you have a couple of years yet till you are ready to make that change in the way that your life is. Enjoy what you have as a lifestyle right now, that time will come soon enough, and bring with it responsibilities that you don't need to worry about yet, enjoy the absence of them.
Niri Tawa

Iron, this poll was aimed at people were CO-HABITATING. If you want to start a people who are either living alone, or living with parents, than go for it dude, it's YOUR poll.

Then why is there a single option?

Because it is MY poll and I wanted it there. If you want to break single into different sub brackets, then you do it on YOUR poll.

Not married or living together. Single in the context of this thread in that I live on my own, but not single in the general sense.

Hey, that's cool HNM, each of us has to find the lifestyle that makes us happy and complete.

miaow... living together, married, happily heading towards divorce, aaaaand... ... ... FREEDOM!!! :D

err Niri it doesn't fit your poll really? Although, stretching it, would be:

2) living together (room-mating more like :S)

If you aren't divorced yet, wouldn't that make you married?

Yes, number two will work, I just want to see how long it takes for you to be able to cuddle up to a wonderful Na'vi though. ;)

People are always going to define themselves in a specific way, and that's fine, I guess :) - a list including everyone's definition of their own circumstances would certainly be far too long.

Which is WHY I only have three choices.

Hmm, interesting response, Raiden. :)
You know, *sometimes* I wish my answer could be like yours...sometimes I *wish* I didn't need anyone/a significant other, and right now I am single and living on my own, and I'm okay with it for the time being. But there's a part of me that would *really* like to find my soulmate/lifemate, if he's out there. So I'm trying not to give up on that just yet. :)

And yeah, I agree there should be a "dating" option in this poll, since many people date each other but don't live together.

LOOK folks this pool is ONLY for people that are LIVING TOGETHER. Or NOT. I was originally going to have TWO choices MARRIED, and single, but decided to include "cohabiting" as an afterthought. Ateyo and I were Married in the State of Texas, (The Courthouse in San Antonio).
Niri Tawa

I guess there is time & place for everything. 'Time' could mean 'forever' like in Raiden's case (at least this is what he feels like now) - or in somebody else's case it could be 'enjoy the singleness while it lasts & you're ok with it; when other needs surface, an opportunity will certainly present itself!'

I also guess there are just people like Grace 'who likes plants more than people' & maybe Raiden likes creatures more than people.

Niri, are we deviating your thread? the subject is way too interesting for just a poll :) :awesome: maybe we should start another thread, like "Finding a Soulmate: is it real? (is it necessary??)" Or something...

No, this is FINE ma Apache, I was hoping that people would vote and then discuss down here in the comments section.
Like you said, this is a very personal decision. There was a time when I was considered "Hot Property" when I was both in the Army, and playing Soccer in College. That was then, and I was just interested in having a good time, no strings attached. (There were some very powerful gender identity reasons for my behavior back then, even though I was VERY successful in the eyes of the other students most of which were 5 to 7 years my junior, and I could have ANY one of the females that I wanted, I HATED the gender role that was thrust upon me). I would not yet learn of my intersexed birth for another 3 to7 years, and I was just trying to enjoy the body that I was forced to live inside by keeping a "score book" and totaling up numbers of young women that I could take to bed).
After I learned about my birth, and then KNEW why I so hated how I was typecast at birth by my progenitors decision in 1950, I had the problem corrected, and have never been more at ease.
The last "step" in my transformation, and maturation came 20 years ago when I met Ateyo. Since then, the two of us have been inseparable. I have gone from the totally self absorbed womanizer of my youth, to someone who was just happy being recognized as being the gender that I knew that I was since I was three or four to someone who considers it great joy to put off what I want in material things, in order to make Ateyo's life better. It isn't just the legal definition of my gender that changed years ago, I have evolved as well. Ateyo and I are thankful every day, that Eywa patiently molded each of us to be ready for each other when the time was perfect for us to meet.
The two of us are VERY happy to be Married, Legally, as well as Spiritually, and know with every fiber of our beings, that one day, we will both still be together with Eywa.
Niri Tawa

srane ma oeyä tsmuk , personal evolutions sometimes travel very curvy roads! :hmm: :rolleyes: I am happy for mefo :)

I was married twice (even thrice, but the first two times to the same guy - obviously it didn't work :S) but this legal marriage event did give me a special feeling... like emotional + physical attraction being materialized, or taking shape... or something...

You ma oeyä mesmuk will sure know about my next step 'as soon as', you're soaia (family)! :)

Moe omum, si mllte moeya tsmuke.

My girlfriend and I don't llive together, but she's here so often that she might as well live here. :P

Where is the "dating but not living together because I am a poor as dirt University student who lives at home" option?

It is in the single (We are talking MARITAL STATUS here NOT dating status), category, or it is in the poll that You can start.

where's the forever alone option *me

There are PLENTY of people of the appropriate gender for you out there, just go out and FIND one. Don't complain about not having any fun, if you won't go to the Arcade. Go hunt someone up.

Ha, that's a great analogy, I'm using it if I ever remember to :xD:
"Married, Living Together, Single, Single and Hopelessly Pessimistic" :P

Here here!
No such thing as forever alone.

It's true, but I think there can be if you aren't considering the right possibilities - if there's nobody nearby, go to different places, meet people you wouldn't, or else just widen your search area where you'd consider something at a longer distance than you would have before.

Hmm..interesting thread! I always find myself playing catch up. This brings back the memory of the photoshoot of 'Avatar couples' at AvatarMeet 2012. Take a look at the video below and wind through to 11 minutes 25 seconds:







Unfortunately I missed videoing the bit where Raiden walked in just as the couples were assembling and when he realised what was happening, he rolled his eyes and walked out! All in good humour, and much to the amusment of everyone. :D:D

As fo me, well I'm as single as they come. But, yep, like most folks, longing to find that life long companion to share my life with. Although, I've just about given up. Is she out there? Is there someone who could put up with me? Will our paths cross? Have they already? Who knows? That's life''s advanture I guess. :P

...*thinks to self whilst looking at own sig image - now if one's soulmate search followed the Avatar experience, boy what a journey that would be...

Alan

or if one Wants to be alone because it makes them happy. i know one person on this forum, & one in the RL - two samples :P

@tm20: about "alone forever":
do you Want to be alone, or do you think you have no chance to be with somebody, for whatever reason? or something... You're not obliged to reply if it's too personal of course.

never say never ma tsmukan ;) - If I had to define just one thing that I had learned in my long & rather intense life, that would be this (what I've just said).
Meself is a living proof :xD: (and look at my signature, too, the 'bleep' part :rolleyes: )

PS and irayo for posting the Meetup Video again... it keeps giving me this... special feeling... what's the word? Pandora syndrom? :love:

You're right ma tswal tsmuke. I know I said I had just about given up, which I guess means I haven't quite yet. But hey, live in hope. I wasn't expecting this Avatar experience and yet here I am with an Avatar family and even had the privilege to meet some of you. :hi:

Always time to share Avatar family moments with everyone.

Alan

Single. I think I do want someone to share my life with, but I honestly don't know. I'm on the autism spectrum and our brains our wired differently and some of us don't really have that drive to seek out a mate.

Well, I guess if anyone longs for a relationship, then they need to understand the need for compromise. There will endevitably end up being things that each side mutually has to change/give up/adjust/accommodate etc. But if that soul search is over, I would say it naturally happens. It can be as little as adjusting your diary through to moving to another country and taking on that culture. But at the end of the day, it's all down to love.

Alan

:D:awesome:where shall I sign?