i'm gonna have to agree with the statement of:
marriage should be removed period.
This is a game, not a dating service. online relationships are one thing when you can actually visit/see/hold/care for the person....
but come on... a person living in (example) Tennessee dating a person in Austrailia online? (or any other combinations where ACTUAL dating is not possible) and you tell me you're in "love" with each other?.. oh get the *** outta here with that. that is absolutely rediculous on every possible level.
take the marriage out of the game. it's a decent idea, with what appears to be no real problems on the surface, but then someone comes along and tries to throw "real life" into a fake game which isn't based on RL at ALL... which then leads to drama (and threads like this) for absolutely no reason.
in the end, all your left with is something that's gonna please some and hurt others. Make some smile, and others cry or whine. this is the way the ball bounces. it's been that way since the dawn of creation (in this case, around 7 years ago). people need to get over it and move on.
Also, for the record... though many may disagree.. the LEGAL definition of marriage is "Marriage as a union of
man and
woman and the inseparable association of their lives". Yes, some states/countries have changed it to incorporate homosexual marriage, but that doesn't change the fact that it took the US, Canada, etc.. almost 2000 years to "agree". they didn't "agree", they "compromised"... so the gay people would shut the *** up.