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Wife Divorces Husband Over Virtual Affair

By Robert Paul Reyes

"A British couple have divorced after the husband was caught having a "virtual affair" with a female character in an online role-playing game.

David Pollard and Amy Taylor met in an online chat room in 2003 and married after discovering a shared love of the Internet game "Second Life."'http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,451945,00.html

In the video game "Second Life" players create characters or avatars that look nothing at all like them. A geeky-looking guy can create an avatar that looks like Brad Pitt, and a dumpy-looking woman can create an avatar that resembles Angelina Jolie.

Amy Taylor felt that she couldn't compete with the avatar that her husband was having a "virtual affair" with in the video game. I've never played "Second Life" but I've played "The Sims" and I've created female characters with impossibly big boobs and bootylicious hips. There is no way that a real woman, not even a Britney Spears, can compete with a virtual hottie. In the Sims world that I created every female character was a promiscuous bi-sexual with only one thing on her mind: Sex.

Instead of taking the drastic measure of getting a real divorce, Taylor should have demanded that her husband break up with his virtual girlfriend. These two loons met playing this video game, she shouldn't have been surprised that her husband committed virtual adultery.

I'm not a sex therapist or a marriage counselor, but I think that if these two jokers had spent more time having real sex and less time playing video games they would still be happily married. I'm scared to play video games, they are too realistic and I'm afraid I might become addicted to them. I have a classic Atari game console and sometimes I play Pacman, but I'm staying away from "The Sims".

I wonder under what grounds Taylor filed for divorce; I doubt that "virtual adultery" is grounds for a real divorce.

Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.