Intimate MMO Affair Brings RL Divorce
A British couple is now filing for divorce after a stink in the online game Second Life. According to reports, a wife discovered that her husband was having an online affair with another woman — or a toon claiming to be a woman anyway — causing all hell to break loose.
According to the British woman, going by the name of Amy Taylor, her husband, David Pollard, had been having a long drawn out affair on Second Life, and even spoke words of steamy love while playing the game. Although the relationship was online, Taylor said that the hurt was very real.
"It may have started on-line but it existed entirely in the real world and it hurts just as much. His was the ultimate betrayal. He had been lying to me," Taylor said of her husband.
The couple is now going through divorce and it looks like there’s no turning back.
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LMAO noob faggot lrn2cheat
the pinnacle of human ignorance
omg lol.............
WOW Some people need to get a life....
that avatar must have been hott
The absolute definition of failure.
Game =/= Life.
WOW Some people need to get a life....
He did - he's even got a Second Life!
It's sad when masturbating alone at a computer while a female avatar types ooooo and mmmmmm a lot counts as the "ultimate betrayal."
It's sad when masturbating alone at a computer while a female avatar types ooooo and mmmmmm a lot counts as the "ultimate betrayal."
I don't believe the actual actions are of any relevance whatsoever. When you trust someone as you would your husband, I don't think it matters at all if you're being let down by a woman he meets in the supermarked or in an online gaming enviroment. The avatar may not be real, but both people playing them are - so even though I've not had the experience myself I can definetly see why she'd no longer want to live with the guy.
What you lamers need to realize is, that just because you can't nessecarily feel the person at the other end of the game, the feelings can very well be real. The brain doesn't know any better. So in short - cheating online involves the same feelings as cheating irl. The severity of the action is the same.
toon or toots?
I completely agree with neiroatopelcc -- the man was choosing to spend time with someone other than his wife, and thus betraying her. We have no idea if he was a cur or suffered from what is often called alienation of affection. The truth is probably somewhere in between. But the real factor is usually the time and energy and choice to invest that time and energy outside of the family.
I'm a bit disapointed in the summary tomsguide is posting. The real story (follow the link in the article) is much more bizare than "wife divorces husband due to on-line affair."
LOL, the husband must spend every single waking moment with his wife? WTF? LOL. That is a marriage doomed to fail.
Your pathetic michaelzehr.
LOL, the husband must spend every single waking moment with his wife? WTF? LOL. That is a marriage doomed to fail. Your pathetic michaelzehr.
Where's it say that? Deceit is deceit no matter the enviroment. that should be your conclusion. Not who is doomed and who isn't. That's not something you're competent to determine anyway.