Second Life affair grounds for real-life divorce

Posted by Mister-X on November 16th, 2008 at 06:00pm

Filed under: PC, Online

Amy Taylor and David Pollard, a British couple who, until recently, had spent three years together in marital bliss, are both avid Second Life players. So avid, in fact, that their nuptials were delivered in the game’s virtual world in addition to, you know, the real one. Unfortunately, digi-Amy caught digi-David in a compromising position with a digi-prostitute shortly after the wedding, leading these two fully grown adults to file for an untimely digi-divorce. However, they remained married in real life, which likely led to a few awkward conversations over brunch.

Digi-David seemed to prove his fidelity by passing a “honeytrap” test later ordered by digi-Amy, in which a buxom digi-Private Eye attempted, and ultimately failed, to seduce his avatar. Unfortunately, digi-Amy recently walked in on digi-David and another avatar, who were conversing with “genuine affection”. In response, real-life-Amy filed for real-life-divorce from real-life-David.

This report has been fairly sensationalied by the mainstream media over the past few days — some outlets state that Taylor’s divorce lawyer had already seen a Second Life-related seperation earlier that week, while some mention that Taylor has found love once again, this time in World of Warcraft. Regardless of the veracity of these questionable accounts, the news of couple’s split due to online infidelity seems to be as true as it is infinitely depressing.

Second Life affair grounds for real-life divorce originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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