November 13, 200817 yr Woman divorces her husband after catching him having a 'virtual affair' in online game By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:43 PM on 13th November 2008 Comments (27) Add to My Stories A woman is divorcing her husband after she caught him having a 'virtual' affair online with a computer-generated female character in a 3D 'digital world' game, it emerged today. Amy Pollard, 28, claims husband David, 40, committed adultery with a woman he met on 'Second Life'. The online game sees players create characters for themselves and live full lives - including having jobs, relationships and children. Amy, who lives with David in Newquay, Cornwall, claims their three-year marriage came to an end after she found him having sex and kissing several girls on the computer game for the second time. Enlarge Computer photo of the Second Life wedding of Amy and David Pollard's online characters Dave Barmy and Laura Skye David and Amy, from Newquay, Cornwall, on their wedding day Amy - who plays the game under the name Laura Skye while her husband goes by the moniker Dave Barmy - has filed for divorce citing 'unreasonable behaviour' in real life. She claims this is the second time she has caught him with another woman in Second Life. In 2007 Amy caught David having sex with the online call girl character and even hired a private detective in the game to investigate his adultery. By then the pair had already married in real life in a registry office and again in Second Life. After the episode David apologised to Amy and in the game 'Laura and Barmy' re-married in a 'lavish, Beckham-like' ceremony. But in April this year Amy says she caught her husband in a compromising position. Amy said: 'I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game. It looked really affectionate. 'He turned off the computer monitor and I turned it back on and demanded to look at his chat history. 'But he turned off the computer so the history was all deleted - and I ended up going off to his mum and dad's in floods of tears. '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 anymore, and we should never have got married.' Enlarge Amy Pollard, left, and her online character Laura Skye. Amy has filed for divorce after she caught her husband Dave having a 'virtual' affair online with a computer-generated female character The next day Amy went to a solicitor to file for a divorce which is due to be finalised next week. She said: 'The solicitor wasn't at all surprised - she said it was her second divorce case involving Second Life that week.' Amy claims her estranged husband is now even engaged to the woman he had an 'affair' with on Second Life - even though they have never actually met in real life. Meanwhile, Amy has a new man in her life, who she met while playing the internet fantasy role-playing game World Of Warcraft. It was in 2007 that Amy says she first discovered her husband's infidelity. She claims it was after she went for an afternoon nap and woke to find him having sex with a call girl on the game. She said: 'I went mad - I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done. 'I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It's cheating as far as I'm concerned. 'But he didn't see it as a problem, and couldn't see why I was so upset. Enlarge Enlarge Dave Barmy, left, prepares to get married. He is the online Second Life character of David Pollard, right 'He said I was just making a big fuss, and tried to make out it was my fault for not giving him enough attention.' Amy met David on an internet chatroom in May 2003 and after six months of e-mails and phone calls, she moved from London to his flat in Newquay, Cornwall. The couple spent hours having fun together in Second Life where his 'avatar' - or alter ego - was called 'Dave Barmy' and hers 'Laura Skye'. They got married at a registry office in St Austell in July 2005 - and even marked the occasion by holding a virtual wedding in Second Life. The pair then moved to a flat in Newquay and carried on their virtual lives in the online world, but Amy says she 'knew something was wrong'. She said: 'I still had my suspicions, but couldn't put my finger on it. 'He never did anything in real life, but I had my suspicions about what he was doing in Second Life.' In February 2007 Amy caught David having sex with the online call girl and even hired an online private detective Markie MacDonald, a 'tall, attractive redheaded PI' who runs Mac's Detective Agency in the online world. But Avatar 'Barmy' apologised and in the game 'Laura and Barmy' remarried in a Second Life ceremony. Amy said: 'We made it up and he promised he would never do anything to hurt me again, and would never cheat on me again.' Then the final bombshell came in April this year when Amy caught her husband in a compromising position in the game.
November 13, 200817 yr MAN HAS AFFAIR ZOMGZZZ NO WAY who cares? Yes people can fall in love on the internet wowowowowowowoowowow
November 14, 200817 yr Author This is really bad of me, but I thought this was the dude :\ :embarassed:. Well at least you didn't think it was a hippo....................... :rolleyes:
November 14, 200817 yr Author aww thats mean mark!!1 You might have a point. I therefore apologise to all hippos out there for any offence taken.;)
November 16, 200817 yr Well at least you didn't think it was a hippo....................... :rolleyes: hahaha, touche. :P
November 16, 200817 yr I think that if the husband had to look for a virtual affair it was because ahe was too boring I mean just look at her face she's not smiling in any pic!!!
November 16, 200817 yr Author Wow, that's sad. A virtual affair? Haha Why, have you been considering having one yourself??:P
November 16, 200817 yr You might have a point. I therefore apologise to all hippos out there for any offence taken.;) :laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3::laugh3: Thank you Mark I needed a good laugh. But seriously, all this is pathetic. Reminds me of that teen who shot himself becuase his character died in some online game. These people are sick and they really need help. I mean, living an entire second life through a game? It's a problem in the world today.
November 16, 200817 yr to me some politicians live on an entire second life too.. :rolleyes: but people is so mad those days on internet :confused: many stories like this one.. wtf is a game they were playing nothing more :dozey: as if her husband had runned away home to go live with the other girl (in case the other virtual character was a girl).
November 16, 200817 yr to me some politicians live on an entire second life too.. :rolleyes: but people is so mad those days on internet :confused: many stories like this one.. wtf is a game they were playing nothing more :dozey: as if her husband had runned away home to go live with the other girl (in case the other virtual character was a girl). I know, it's just a game. Would someone's spouse freak out if they were "flirting" with some Pervs on this site? Somehow I doubt it.:dozey:
November 16, 200817 yr I would put money on them getting divorced for something completely different, but they are saying it's the 2nd life to hide their shame
November 16, 200817 yr Author to me some politicians live on an entire second life too.. :rolleyes: but people is so mad those days on internet :confused: many stories like this one.. wtf is a game they were playing nothing more :dozey: as if her husband had runned away home to go live with the other girl (in case the other virtual character was a girl). I think the crux of the matter is that if you're married to someone, you should want to spend the majority of your time with that person, not with others, particularly when it comes to "flirting" etc. By acting like this guy was, you are being disrespectful to your spouse. Everyone has a choice. Nobody is forced to get married. If you do, you should be prepared to put in the necessary commitment. With people like this, you really do wonder why they got married in the first place. Spending endless hours chatting is bad enough, but something like Second Life must take an incredible amount of time, commitment and money. I actually know someone who ended up getting a divorce because she found her husband had been chatting with other women online when he was hardly ever home in the first place. I can fully understand why this might freak someone out.
November 16, 200817 yr I think the crux of the matter is that if you're married to someone, you should want to spend the majority of your time with that person, not with others, particularly when it comes to "flirting" etc. By acting like this guy was, you are being disrespectful to your spouse. Everyone has a choice. Nobody is forced to get married. If you do, you should be prepared to put in the necessary commitment. With people like this, you really do wonder why they got married in the first place. Spending endless hours chatting is bad enough, but something like Second Life must take an incredible amount of time, commitment and money. I actually know someone who ended up getting a divorce because she found her husband had been chatting with other women online when he was hardly ever home in the first place. I can fully understand why this might freak someone out. :thinking: you are right on that, but you know some couple don't mind that, they do things like that i think... strange i know but they do.... i mean i know married people who goes on chatting and all that... but most of the time the marriages end for stuff like that :\
November 16, 200817 yr Author :thinking: you are right on that, but you know some couple don't mind that, they do things like that i think... strange i know but they do.... i mean i know married people who goes on chatting and all that... but most of the time the marriages end for stuff like that :\ Exactly. The only time this sort of behaviour would be fine is if both parties agreed to live like that before getting married (some people even agree they can have other partners). Otherwise it's completely out of order, and selfish.;)
November 16, 200817 yr I think it's a ridiculous story. In that case, no one should play games on a computer out of fear to be convicted of infidelity. Nowadays, there are so many kinds of games on the Internet whose players aren't only teenagers but also adults. I can't understand this woman whereas I understand her husband that was tired of his wife. However, he should have talked to her about it instead of making her filing for divorce.:dozey:
November 16, 200817 yr Author I think it's a ridiculous story. In that case, no one should play games on a computer out of fear to be convicted of infidelity. Nowadays, there are so many kinds of games on the Internet whose players aren't only teenagers but also adults. I can't understand this woman whereas I understand her husband that was tired of his wife. However, he should have talked to her about it instead of making her filing for divorce.:dozey: Exactly. So his behaviour was unacceptable whatever way you look at it.;)
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