It was then that fact and fiction really began to collide. Horrified, Taylor ended the online relationship between Skye and Barmy but stayed with Pollard in real life. Their avatars became partners in Second Life - until Taylor woke from an afternoon nap and found Pollard at the computer watching his Dave Barmy character having sex with a prostitute. In Second Life she liked to wear tight-fitting cowboy outfits and lived by the motto: "Never give your heart easily." He set himself up in a winter chalet with a Cobra helicopter gunship parked next to it. She moved from her home in London to be with him in Newquay, north Cornwall, and at first they had fun together in real life and cyberspace. Second Life players have spotted the trend and some have set themselves up as virtual private eyes who check on the fidelity of suspected cyber cheats - or as virtual relationship counsellors.Īppropriately enough, Amy Taylor (she has already changed her name by deed poll), 28, and David Pollard, 40, met in an internet chatroom. Role-playing games have won plaudits for connecting people, academics and businesses, but the British charity Relate said tonight that its counsellors were coming across an increasing number of people whose real-life relationships were falling apart because of what was happening in their parallel, unreal worlds. This avatar can move around the imagined world, meet people, socialise, buy land and property with the game's virtual currency and set up businesses. The brainchild of American company Linden Lab, Second Life players can create a virtual alter ego, an avatar. "It may have started on-line but it existed entirely in the real world and it hurts just as much," she said. Amy Taylor, who in Second Life is club DJ Laura Skye, said today that as far as she was concerned her husband, David Pollard, was having a real relationship with the human controlling her love rival.
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