Second Life

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The Jay Thomas Show provided me with a little more insight into a sickness that is plaguing married couples all across the land. It's a virtual computer game called Second Life in which participants enter a world where they establish a second existence, including being virtually married to a game partner, having virtual sex, planning a virtual family, and raising virtual kids.

Are you freaking kidding me?

This guy called in because his wife was spending hour after hour in this virtual world. She was receiving actual text messages, and phone calls from her virtual husband that wished her luck with her daily grind, and advice on her real life.

How in the world can you keep a virtual marriage going when you're screwing up the one in your real life? How can you keep a virtual spouse happy at the same time that you are trying to keep a real spouse interested?

It's tough enough to raise children in the real world - and now you're going to add in the worry of taking care of additional virtual kids? Can you love your virtual family as much as you love your real family - or vice-versa.

Hell, I can't even follow it all in this blog.

And the virtual sex. What is that like? Is that cheating?

The husband who had lost his wife to the game was in a virtual tizzy, explaining that his wife did nothing more than talk to her virtual husband through a microphone and the computer.

Good old Jay Thomas had some sound advice - "Join the game and virtually murder the guy who's sleeping with your wife."

I'm nearly done with work for the week - the boys will be home in a few minutes, and the tasks of getting set up for Christmas, and dinner, and cleaning and dogs out, and maybe a little relaxation, are all fighting for space inside my head.

I'm wondering how to keep the real wife and kids happy - what a cluster.... it would be if I had to mix in cyber-sex with another wife.

God help us all.

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