”The husband and wife who play together stay together”

There are many husband and wives who play MMORGPS together. Some play the same game but choose to create toons on different servers. Although they are married in the RL they lead very separate lives in game play. This separation can often lead each spouse to an in-game romance with other people. A curious offshoot of this is the husband and wife who play together, on the same server, many times in the same Player Association (PA – a group of players who play together as a group) and still choose to romance others. Their motives can be for fun, the thrill of “safe” relations outside of the primary relationship, or a genuine sense of role-playing not connecting what goes on from between being Out of Character (OOC) or In Character (IC). More expected, though, is the RL couple who also pairs off in the game.