"Love life" during the apocalypse

[IcyZ 295]

Now, I want to keep this on topic, and try to make it as serious and realistic as possible.

My question is, what would YOU do in a zombie apocalypse with your "love life"? Let's say that a zombie apocalypse starts IRL. Your family and closest friends are dead, and you're all alone. You are running scared around the streets, away from all the madness and you find shelter in a small building. In there you find 4-5 other survivors, scared as well. You talk to each other, decide to team up and escape the city. You set camp in the woods and stay there for a long time. You become close friends with everyone, you trust and protect each other.

Now, there is a goodlooking boy/girl ( accoring to your taste) that seems to be interested in you. Would you start a relationship? I mean, would you be attached to someone in the middle of this shitstorm? Forget the factor sex, I'm talking about feelings. Would you prefer to be with a person even if he/she may die the next day or you prefer to be alone so you'll not be too attached to someone?

[dajeroen 11]

By your picture this looks like you got it from the Walking Dead :D.

I don't know, depends on how bad the situation is.

Edited June 16, 2013 by DaJeroen

[IcyZ 295]

By your picture this looks like you got it from the Walking Dead :D.

I don't know, depends on how bad the situation is.

I like TWD, but I thought of that by rewatching Zombieland for the 10000th time. Columbus is eager to have a relationship/friends/family and Tallahasse is trying to avoid it

[xeezy 27]

Probably not considering there would be no point getting attached as she could die anyday.

[GOD™ 2795]

Maybe..

[WBK 176]

Great question, it made me really think. I think I would definitely have a crack at a relationship.

An apocalypse, I imagine, would be much like a war. Long periods of nothing happening and boredom interspersed by short waves of high activity and sheer terror. I'd probably be staying in a base until it got discovered, and then moving to a new one. So for most of my day, I'd be locked up inside my camp. I'd think of ways to pass the time, but that's all it would be - passing the time. I wouldn't feel anything until I had to scavenge for food or resources next. My family and friends are dead and I have no idea how long the apocalypse (I'm just gonna call it the A from now on) will last, or even if it will ever end. The only thing keeping me going is the instinct to survive. Sure, I'd hope that a cure is eventually found, or all the zombies/infected are killed off. But by the end of even a month of the A, I would've lost most if not all of that hope. It'd be a pipe dream.

What I'm saying is, life would be monotonous. I wouldn't ever consider suicide in normal life, but there's every chance I would in an A. If there is nothing to live for other than life itself, then why not make the best of it? Meeting other survivors is what would keep me alive for sure. Whether they turn out to be friends, enemies, acquaintances or otherwise, human contact would be a necessity, and my only bastion of hope. So if I found any semi-permanent friends, I would keep them. If any opportunities for an intimate relationship arose, I would take it. Why? Because they would be someone who I could share everything with. I'd still be bored half the time when there's nothing happening, but at least I'd be bored with someone. Someone I loved. Plus all the kissing and sex would be amazing!

But why get attached if they could die? Why not? I have already lost everything. We'd have to lay down some ground rules that would be harder and harder to obey the more attached we get - things like agreeing to kill the other person if they become infected. I am well aware of the stakes, and so is my partner. Hell, we might even become so attached that we break the rules for each other and end up dying - something like going back for them when they're stranded in a city. That's the point though; they made me feel that I have something to live for or die for, not just running around and hiding just for surviving's sake. While we're together, we can distract each other from what's really going on outside. We have someone to lie with, to smile with and to trust. That's why I'd take the risk. I don't know how I'd respond if they died. But I do know that taking a chance with someone would be far better than shutting yourself off from emotion.

TL;DR: Yes I would.

[bfisher 561]

Why do I feel like IcyZ is planning on raping someone and making them his gimp sex slave? :o

[IcyZ 295]

TL;DR: Yes I would.

(I quoted only that to avoid creating a longer-than -needed post)

I agree with you, I'd say pretty much the same thing. Now, in my life I get bored alone, I got my buds and my girlfriend, and I always had someone by my side, best friend, girlfriend, my cousin...

In an A, I'd probably try to find more people to be with. Create a small safe camp and start a whole new life. I'd like to have someone by my side, looking at my past I'd probably find a guy to trust and befriend and watch out for each other. So far I'm always there for my close friends, I got my ass kicked when I supported my bud against some bullies 4 years ago in high school, I helped him kick some ass when someone was picking on his girlfriend, and I'd do it again, I always support him and he supports me. Now, in an A it'll be a matter of life or death but I want to believe that I'll be there for anyone I'm with.

I'm a huge fan of books, all kind of books. Have been reading lots of history books I've noticed that after every war, the country that "rules the world" is the one that still has a healthy "society system". In my opinion the only way to avoid complete chaos in an A is to create a community. Get everyone that manages to find you, make him feel like home. Everyone can have a "job", hunter, fisherman, farmer, lawkeeper, guard, doctor, you name it.

What is the most important part of a community? Human interaction. Relationships should be a priority. Not just to make sure that humans will not stop existing, but making sure that people are still mentaly healthy enough to adapt a relationship. Another reason is that by having families, you basicaly have groups of people, it's easier to organize them if they're in groups with people they like/love.

[IcyZ 295]

Why do I feel like IcyZ is planning on raping someone and making them his gimp sex slave? :o

In-game, I'd happily do it, I'm already playing as a mentaly unstable bandit :P IRL I don't think I could do something like that!

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Or could I?

*dun dun DUN*

Edited June 16, 2013 by IcyZ

[tilen 19]

Now, I want to keep this on topic, and try to make it as serious and realistic as possible.

My question is, what would YOU do in a zombie apocalypse with your "love life"? Let's say that a zombie apocalypse starts IRL. Your family and closest friends are dead, and you're all alone. You are running scared around the streets, away from all the madness and you find shelter in a small building. In there you find 4-5 other survivors, scared as well. You talk to each other, decide to team up and escape the city. You set camp in the woods and stay there for a long time. You become close friends with everyone, you trust and protect each other.

Now, there is a goodlooking boy/girl ( accoring to your taste) that seems to be interested in you. Would you start a relationship? I mean, would you be attached to someone in the middle of this shitstorm? Forget the factor sex, I'm talking about feelings. Would you prefer to be with a person even if he/she may die the next day or you prefer to be alone so you'll not be too attached to someone?

Haha, you're talking as if you could control your feelings. John Rambo over here!

[IcyZ 295]

Haha, you're talking as if you could control your feelings. John Rambo over here!

If you manage to be away from all the shit and be in a camp that you feel it's safe, then why not control your feelings?

[tilen 19]

Because some things cannot be controlled. You may choose not to show them or to deny that you have them, but they will be there. So you wouldn't be doing anything useful by controlling them, merely lying to yourself that you do not care, or care less, for said person. My opinion.

[bca quattro 44]

i dont mind till it comes to that situation - its nothing you can plan so making mindgames about love in the apocalypse is wasted time - i rather plan the next lootraid of Krasnostav or Vybor ;)

[FreshmeatDK 22]

Statistically speaking, whenever males or females spend a significant amount of time together, no matter how screwed up the situation is, pregnancies occur. So I guess that relationships would evolve in an apocalypse as well. Speaking from a evolutionary standpoint, it would be madness not to spread ones genes as fast as possible, given the initial onslaught is over with.

[p4triot 207]

Now, I want to keep this on topic, and try to make it as serious and realistic as possible.

My question is, what would YOU do in a zombie apocalypse with your "love life"? Let's say that a zombie apocalypse starts IRL. Your family and closest friends are dead, and you're all alone. You are running scared around the streets, away from all the madness and you find shelter in a small building. In there you find 4-5 other survivors, scared as well. You talk to each other, decide to team up and escape the city. You set camp in the woods and stay there for a long time. You become close friends with everyone, you trust and protect each other.

Now, there is a goodlooking boy/girl ( accoring to your taste) that seems to be interested in you. Would you start a relationship? I mean, would you be attached to someone in the middle of this shitstorm? Forget the factor sex, I'm talking about feelings. Would you prefer to be with a person even if he/she may die the next day or you prefer to be alone so you'll not be too attached to someone?

If I know me well, and I think I do, I wouldn't give a shit for anyone in a real situation like that, besides my already friends from now. And I pretty much know this because it already is that way in my normal life. Im not the type who falls in love easy.

[tilen 19]

So that's your friend in the sig picture? Riiiiight...

[Composite Armour 21]

Depends if she has good loot or not.

[IcyZ 295]

Depends if she has good loot or not.

I guess that a big frontpack is a plus xD

[dajeroen 11]

I like TWD, but I thought of that by rewatching Zombieland for the 10000th time. Columbus is eager to have a relationship/friends/family and Tallahasse is trying to avoid it

Yeah, Zombieland is epic.

[IcyZ 295]

Yeah, Zombieland is epic.

My favorite zombie movie! Shaun of the Dead and Resident Evil movies are in 2nd and 3d place on my top 3 :P

[dallas 5195]

According to Walking Dead if your husband is in a coma for 2-3 days, you should quickly hook up with his best friend.

[OrLoK 16187]

According to Walking Dead if your husband is in a coma for 2-3 days, you should quickly hook up with his best friend.

Thats that US soap isnt it? Sounds like SoP to me.

Would I find someone to snuggle? Yup, but that's because I personally function better with a partner. It's gonna be down to the individual.

Rgds

LoK