Virtual affair leads to actual divorce
p2pnet news view | Games:- When their Second Life, “computer-generated selves clapped eyes on each other,” it was, “love at first sight”.
But they were, “only friends until David split with his wife”.
“Linda Brinkley (left), 55, known on the multi-player online game as Modesty McDonnell (right), revealed that since her online fling with David Pollard the couple had become engaged in real life,” says the Daily Mail.
But, “Miss Brinkley today denied that her internet love affair with Mr Pollard had led to the break-up of the 40-year-old’s marriage to ex-wife Amy Taylor,” says the story.
Amy Taylor, 28, “cited unreasonable behaviour in the court papers, describing how their three-year marriage came to an end after she claims she twice walked in on her husband while he was engaging in an online affair,” says the Western Morning News.
“One time he was allegedly pretending to have sex in the online game.”
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Ms Taylor said: “He never did anything in real life, but I had my suspicions about what he was doing in Second Life.”
In February 2007, she caught him having sex with the online prostitute character and even hired an online private detective in the game to investigate what he was up to. There followed a reconciliation, but in April this year, she found his character cuddling another virtual female woman.
She said: “I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. It looked really affectionate.
“He confessed he’d been talking to this woman player in America for one or two weeks, and said our marriage was over and he didn’t love me any more, and we should never have got married.”
The next day, Taylor went to a lawyer to file for a divorce, which is due to be finalised next week, adds the Western Morning News.
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Daily Mail – Revealed: The ‘other woman’ in Second Life divorce… who’s now engaged to the web cheat she’s never met, November 14, 2008
Western Morning News – Virtual world ‘affair’ ends with real-life divorce, November 14, 2008
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November 14th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
“virtual female woman”?
The real woman was not female enough.