One of the features of our new forums is a section called Social Groups, what these are, are mini forums but not in the mainstream forum listing. They can be accessed from the Community link within the navigation bar at the top just above the forum listings. What we would like to do is create a special section for group cruises and certain special type ongoing discussions such as yours that are not part of the Cruise Addicts Group Cruise package or mainstream cruise discussions.
Members of the group can start threads, reply to threads and in essence it responds just like a forum, but it is your forum. It will have its own leader chosen by yourselves, (no knives or guns during selection and san is not automatically the leader) that will be able to keep the group organized, you can make it public, moderated or private, your choice.
Only bad part of this so far is that we have not found a way to move the posts from this existing thread, though we can leave this thread as a reference archive.
We are not going to force you to leave the cruiseline forum but since the majority of your posts are of a more personal nature than actual cruising my thought is that it would be a great setup to allow you a little more privacy in your conversations and with the invite feature maybe it could grow back into the more active area that it used to be.
Doesn't have to be a rash decision, talk it out, think about it then let us know and you can pm me with any questions or concerns