Of all the reasons for divorce, this one is the best...

A couple are divorcing after a woman found her was husband cheating – with a virtual character in an online world.

Amy Taylor caught estranged husband David Pollard having sex with an animated woman in Second Life. 'I went mad – I was so hurt.

I just couldn't believe what he'd done,' said Ms Taylor, 28. 'I looked at the screen and saw his character having sex. It's cheating, as far as I'm concerned.'

The couple met online in 2003 and, within months, she had moved into 40-year-old Mr Pollard's flat in Newquay, Cornwall.

They spent hours together on Second Life, where players create fantasy lives, with jobs and relationships.

After two years, the pair married – in real life and in the game – but Ms Taylor said she knew something was wrong.

'I had my susp_icions about what he was doing in Second Life,' she added.

In February last year, she caught her husband's avatar, Dave Barmy, having sex with a call girl in the game.

Her character, Laura Skye, hired a virtual private detective to investigate his online adultery.

But Mr Pollard apologised and begged for forgiveness.

But the final bombshell came this April, when she caught her husband with his new online flame, Modesty McDonnell.

'I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. It looked really affectionate,' said Ms Taylor, who filed for _divorce the next day.

'He confessed he'd been talking to this woman in America for weeks and said he didn't love me any more.'

Ms Taylor said she was down for a while – but now has a new man, who she met in the online game World Of Warcraft.

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Crazy. But it's going to become more and more common, as cracked predicted.

What bards said minus the crazy comment. I was thinking more like lame.

Originally posted by dadudemon
What bards said minus the crazy comment. I was thinking more like lame.

I find the situation quite crazy, I don't think it is all that lame, though, really.

But good we agree on the rest.

Originally posted by Bardock42
I find the situation quite crazy, I don't think it is all that lame, though, really.

But good we agree on the rest.

I find the situation quite lame. I don't think it is all that crazy, though, really. Nothing in that is even close to FUBAR in that situation.

But good we agree on the rest.

This substitute teacher at my Uni supposedly divorced his wife because she made him the wrong type of sandwich for lunch.

True or not, it's hilarious.

Originally posted by Röland
This substitute teacher at my Uni supposedly divorced his wife because she made him the wrong type of sandwich for lunch.

True or not, it's hilarious.

Clearly false. Rumors at least need to be believable to be juicy or funny in more than a random wtf way.

I lol'd at the story. I hit on girls in WoW but not for serious. Half the time it's probably a dude anyway. Like when I'm on my female avatar and mess with them...

😈

Originally posted by DigiMark007
Clearly false. Rumors at least need to be believable to be juicy or funny in more than a random wtf way.

If the game-cheating was the real reason, she should be repeatedly kicked in the head for being such a ****ing moron.

I don't see why this is funny or crazy or lame at all

the man was engaging in emotional relationships with people other than his wife.

show of hands, who would be upset if their monogamous partner was having cyber sex? compound that, pretend you met your partner having cyber sex as well.

I find the situation a bit crazy because they met on second life as well as the cheating take place on it. Also, it's a situation that would be quite strange to me in non-internet-based life as well. But as I said it is to be expected and will just increase over the next few years, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though maybe slightly frightening in some ways.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15657_world-warcraft-world-10-ways-online-gaming-will-change-future.html

Its just some guy cheating on his wife in the same way he met her.

The internet side of it is interesting, but less so when you see the research that talks about people's personal identity and interpersonal development that goes on via mmorpg video games. Everyone always gets up in arms when I say this (because they think it doesn't apply to them, silly ducks), but people cannot distinguish fantasy from reality.

The cracked list is cool. I remember reading something off of... oh man, I can't even remember it now, but some Blizzard fansite (probably pushing 10 years ago now), about someone who was making so much money playing Diablo 2 that their father thought they had gotten involved in criminal activity (he said he got something like 2 grand in a 2-3 week period). I don't know, it always seemed inevitable to me that these fantasy worlds would become centrally important in a lot of people's lives. LOL, the times where you see internet anonymity cross with the personal investment people have in their characters are interesting. I remember a story from my EverQuest days about a man (who largely had no life outside the game) killed himself because a supposed "friend" and long time acquaintance in the game had stole or ripped him off for a considerable amount of stuff.

Originally posted by Kelly_Bean
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LOL..it looked so affectionate.

I guess she has no problem with him banging an e-whore. Just keep love out of it!

I don't know if it is that much about distinguishing fantasy from reality. Especially since MMORPGs aren't all fantasy, it's massively community based as well.

Originally posted by Bardock42
I don't know if it is that much about distinguishing fantasy from reality. Especially since MMORPGs aren't all fantasy, it's massively community based as well.

indeed

My suspicion however is that people will go "OMFG, thats crazy, divorce over some game". Maybe it isn't the reality/fantasy blur, but I was trying to think of an easy way to say that most people aren't aware of how personally and socially important an integrative mmorpgs and video games in general are, or how much of a part of our "real lives" supposedly "fake lives" can become.

I guess for a group of people who tend to frequent an internet message board this is probably not revolutionary.

Originally posted by inimalist
I don't see why this is funny or crazy or lame at all

the man was engaging in emotional relationships with people other than his wife.

show of hands, who would be upset if their monogamous partner was having cyber sex? compound that, pretend you met your partner having cyber sex as well.

Because the online call girl he was "sleeping" with and the woman he snuggled on the couch with were both probably 45+ year old men.

To divorce the guy JUST for this is rediculous, if indeed this is the real reason. So a kick in the head is in order for this dumb-****.

Edit: I think the "call girl" wasn't an avatar of a real person, but just a part of the game/world. Which just compounds this divorcee's idiocy.

Originally posted by Robtard
Because the online call girl he was "sleeping" with and the woman he snuggled on the couch with were both probably 45+ year old men.

To divorce the guy JUST for this is rediculous, if indeed this is the real reason. So a kick in the head is in order for this dumb-****.

Edit: I think the "call girl" wasn't an avatar of a real person, but just a part of the game/world. Which just compounds this divorcee's idiocy.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Well, they met exactly the same way.

I stand by "to divorce the guy JUST for this is rediculous", which it is, if so.

Edit: I originally missed this key part of the story:

'He confessed he'd been talking to this woman in America for weeks and said he didn't love me any more.'

Which makes sense now, so I retract my "kick in the head" comment.

Originally posted by Robtard
I stand by "to divorce the guy JUST for this is rediculous", which it is, if so.

Edit: I originally missed this key part of the story:

'He confessed he'd been talking to this woman in America for weeks and said he didn't love me any more.'

Which makes sense now, so I retract my "kick in the head" comment.

[edit] I see your edit and...accept.

Originally posted by Robtard
Because the online call girl he was "sleeping" with and the woman he snuggled on the couch with were both probably 45+ year old men.

To divorce the guy JUST for this is rediculous, if indeed this is the real reason. So a kick in the head is in order for this dumb-****.

Edit: I think the "call girl" wasn't an avatar of a real person, but just a part of the game/world. Which just compounds this divorcee's idiocy.

So if your partner was engaging in romantic and sexual relationships over a chat room you would have no problem? (assuming you are a fan of monogamy)

If the call girl was an in game thing, ya, thats weird, however, I've heard of girls who get pissed if their boyfriend watches porn (which is ****ing retarded).

I agree it is a stupid reason to get a divorce. But I would say that having an affair is a stupid reason to get a divorce. I agree with your earlier sentiment though, this is more likely just the straw that broke the camels back. The article says the man told the woman he no longer loved her, and that seems like a damn good reason for a divorce.

EDIT: just saw your point where you mention the not being in love thing