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True Romance

Thursday, 20. November 2008, 11:12:00

,

I wanna tell you a story about true love.

We've all heard the story. Boy meets girl online. They are a similar age and have similar interests so they start chatting more and more, then eventually fall in love. Within months they're living together and planning a wedding. It's a common story, shared by the two people pictured above as their Second Life avatars at their virtual wedding. But, as with all virtual things, reality can be a pretty tough pill to swallow.

In real life these people aren't the mid-twenties go getters they pretend to be online. Must have been a shock for them when they finally met offline in real life, but it didn't stop the virtual love. In fact this image is from their real life wedding, so they obviously didn't mind the fact that they'd been deceiving each other with their fantasy lives.

However, when Amy discovered her new husband was cheating on her she'd had enough and filed for divorce, both real and virtual. She'd already caught his avatar having sex with a virtual prostitute (look in the mirror right now to see the expression I had when I read that) but they'd managed to patch things up.

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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. He said I was just making a big fuss and tried to make out it was my fault for not giving him enough attention.

But then, in April this year, she caught her husband's avatar in another compromising position. She claims he was having cybersex with a female player in America.

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 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 any more, and we should never have got married.

Gee, sucks to be her eh? Well the unhappy couple have each found someone else now. Dave is dating the 55 year old virtual stripper he was last caught cheating with, and Amy found her true love on World of Warcraft. You'd think by now they'd have learned that their happiness isn't going to be found online. At least not without them being a little bit more honest about who they really are. Oh well, that's internet romances for you.
:rolleyes:

BeautifurieSquirrelled

Comments

funz81 20. November 2008, 11:24

:insane: too many surprises in a post :ko:

Zaphira 20. November 2008, 11:24

I heard that story on the news here too, and the expression on my face was just like yours when I heard about "having sex with a virtual prostitute". :rolleyes:

theoddbod 20. November 2008, 11:32

I'd like a picture of this supposed expression p:

Furie 20. November 2008, 11:34

A cross between :yikes:, :insane:, :yuck: and :confused:.

Furie 20. November 2008, 11:39

This post isn't meant to be public yet as I'm still working on it, so forgive the late addition of links. :D

OkayPJs 20. November 2008, 11:53

*shivers*

Zaphira 20. November 2008, 11:54

Love the last link! :lol:

Furie 20. November 2008, 12:06

Finally finished. :D

funz81 20. November 2008, 12:45

:lol: I recognize the first one, that's Angus :lol:

funz81 20. November 2008, 12:46

:lol: I recognize the first one, that's Angus :lol:

Moesring 20. November 2008, 12:52

I love the "More information about cyber" links. :lol:

H82typ 20. November 2008, 13:03

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kalynka 20. November 2008, 13:28

awww poor woman

Furie 20. November 2008, 13:30

Was it that bad last time you cybered with Kerst? awww

kalynka 20. November 2008, 13:51

I don't do that with girls :lol:

rose-marie 20. November 2008, 14:22

:lol: What a great post. Love all the links :D.

qlue 20. November 2008, 14:40

You do know that there is no smiley that works for this one don't you.

Furie 20. November 2008, 14:46

Good. I hate single smiley comments anyway. Besides, my smiley pretty much says it all.

qlue 20. November 2008, 18:21

If ya had a mirror to look into when ya read about the cyber whore, then you have some idea of what the smiley for this post should looklike. :D

funz81 20. November 2008, 18:48

Interesting :sherlock:

Wait... Opera has a horny smilie now? :cool:

Furie 20. November 2008, 19:53

Yeah, looks a little like Dangermouse's assistant, but dressed in leather and holding a whip. :left:

Cois 20. November 2008, 22:00

Sweetangel13 :ko: so many disturbing suprises.. :insane:

qlue 21. November 2008, 07:25

Sorry Swaer, I know she's not what you expected but you'll get over her. p:

theoddbod 21. November 2008, 08:12

:eyes:

Cois 21. November 2008, 08:34

I'm just glad you screened her for me qlue, old buddy :happy: your a good friend.. :D

clean 21. November 2008, 09:17

This reminds me of an issue of Ultimate X-Men I read where The Beast is talking online with someone he assumes is all but perfect for him - female, exceptionally intelligent, mutant rights advocate, etc.

But 'she' was actually The Blob ...

By the way ... nice background!

Furie 21. November 2008, 11:13

Is that before or after Beast turned gay?

Furie 21. November 2008, 11:15

It was for someone else's page theme that I did last year, but she doesn't use the theme anymore so I swiped the background for myself. :D

wickedlizard 21. November 2008, 11:54

people are strange and some desperate... how sad life is for some people. Some people seriously need therapy and a reality pill. :insane:

Furie 21. November 2008, 12:14

I've been telling you that for years Issy. p:

wickedlizard 21. November 2008, 12:44

:irked: p:

Marike79 21. November 2008, 15:17

:yikes: but it shows how many lost people there are in the world *shakes head*

Furie 21. November 2008, 15:55

Lost, insane... Potato, tomato...

Cois 21. November 2008, 16:42

:rolleyes:

clean 21. November 2008, 22:12

I think it was the defining event that 'made' Beast gay ...

(Well ... that and turning into a big tiger and losing interest in his former girlfriend and just wanting to give the media something to think about besides mutants for a while ... :wink: ).

Amazing what I can still pick up from comics even though I can't afford to buy many these days ... I love the library and trade paperbacks! :lol:

Furie 21. November 2008, 22:41

Turning into a tiger? :eyes:

clean 21. November 2008, 22:58

Secondary Mutation. Blame Grant Morrison.

clean 21. November 2008, 23:00

Umm ... I mean Warren Ellis.

Furie 22. November 2008, 12:20

Only just escaped from the shadow dimension of Marvel Wikipedia. So much happens. :insane:

Dacotah 22. November 2008, 13:21

Good post Mik. This post and a couple of others didn't show up on my watch list. :frown:

Furie 22. November 2008, 15:58

Odd. Probably from when the update was having it's problems worked on.

Dacotah 22. November 2008, 17:02

Could be, because it looked ok I think when the update came out, if I remember right. It probably started when they worked on the update problems.

sugarwinx 24. November 2008, 00:40

Woah... Some ppl are just too weird... Even in my standard!! :insane:

Furie 24. November 2008, 01:26

And that's immensely weird. :yikes:

sugarwinx 25. November 2008, 03:11

Mik!!!!!! Be nice!!

It's almost Christmas... :D

Furie 25. November 2008, 10:24

You got an entire month yet. :mad:

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