A British woman is filing for divorce after discovering her husband has been virtually philandering in Second Life .

28-year-old Amy Taylor cited unreasonable behaviour in the petition for divorce, claiming that she had walked in on her husband having sex with another woman.

On the computer. In a game.

Oh, the irony...

In an ironic twist to the tale, Taylor met (estranged) hubby David Pollard, in a chatroom back in 2003, when an online romance blossomed into marriage, leading her to up sticks from London to move down to the wilds of Cornwall.

"I went mad - I was so hurt. I just couldn't believe what he'd done," Amy said, of finding her feckless hubby having pretend sex in a game with a stranger.

"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."

New MMO romance blossoms

"The solicitor wasn't at all surprised - she said it was her second divorce case involving Second Life that week," she added.

Amy's Second Life alter-ego was called Laura Skye. Pollard's was called Dave Barmy. Amy has now met a new man. In World Of Warcraft .

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I can't believe how naive she was  For goodness sake she MET him on the internet after all. The internet can lull you into a false sense of trust etc. You get chatting to someone and think you know them, even after months of chat, yet we forget that people can say whatever they feel you want to hear on here. Oh yes I know there are genuine people about and some have obtained genuine friends or parnters, but, there are a lot of ' loonies' too, people who are mentally unstable, such as stalkers and obsessives. This medium has caused untold pain and upset to a lot of people, I speak from experience.