Corina

Welcome to my (Second) Life! My husband heard about Second Life around 2 years ago and, being self-employed, started using it every day while I was at work for about 3 months until I found out. I knew sth was up in the evenings when he started clicking away windows every time i went near the study.

I confronted him, found out he was doing that (with a female avatar -living out some things he can't in real life), and was hurt because he had been keeping sth obviously so major for him from me for so long.

My reaction after that? I signed up myself (the 'I'll show him' reaction...). Within a month I was the one in the study, clicking away windows. I fell more or less in love with a man on there (a real one), lots of the issues in my marriage became clearer, I flew alone to the States for two weeks to clear my head, came back and ended the Second Life relationship.

My husband is still daily on SL, and I accept it as long as I don't end up feeling neglected through it. So we have a little spat every month or two - but we do communicate about it. In the end it is doing more for him than I can really realize, and I'm trying to understand that.