SL "love"

So yes, people who play on SL can and do fall "in love". Not just on SL, but the feelings do transfer onto real life. I know at least one person I know as an avatar, and got to know their real life self through other online sources that have gone that route. My first major SL boyfriend, Minnow, is now engaged IRL to the woman his avatar started dating 1 week after our avis broke up.
I think that's wonderful, but it's not what I am on SL for.
Sure, it's great to feel adored by someone else. It sometimes gets me through some rough spots in my RL marriage. Me myself, would never leave my RL husband for anyone on SL. That being said, I can elaborate on the relationships I have had with men on SL.
My first long term SL bf was Minnow. I had met him at a dance club called Blackhearts and we both hung out at the offshoot of that club, "C&C". He didn't talk much to me. I thought he was a bit snobby. Then, a month or so after I joined SL, C&C closed down. It was a GREAT club, but it was gone. I was a bit lost. I hung out at Blackhearts here and there but it didn't have the same feel as C&C, but it was there that I connected with Minnow. At the time I was dating a guy named Beowulf, who I worked with. The problem Beo and I had was that he was hardly on SL for us to nuture our relationship. Anyway, I owned a portrait studio and invited Minnow to come have some portraits done. He came, he took some rather dashing pictures, and I took a few with him in my "maiden" outfit..and sparks flew.
A few days later, Beo and I split. One or two days after that, Minnow and I were a couple. It was a great partnership. Minnow lived on the same sim I did. After a month or so he moved in with me on my parcel. After a short time our discussions started to revolve around opening up a club, similar to C&C. We both missed that club. The corner parcel next to mine was abandoned and Minnow purchased it. For me.
One or two days later, rather spontaneously, I started building..what would become what is known on SL as "The Brick".
Needless to say, Minnow and I lasted 3 months. We celebrated our 3 month anniversary, but weeks of resentment about financial issues related to the cost of maintaining the club wore on me, and I broke it off that same day. He wasn't surprised, and he wasn't that heartbroken. After all, he had already met his future RL love.
He started dating her shortly after our breakup. I had thought there would be a reconciliation but once I found out about her(she was someone I had met and befriended weeks before), it was done. I didn't speak to either of them for 4 or 5 months, I felt so betrayed. Today, I am civil with them both.