Letters to the Editor
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Virtual Wives
Oh I read the article too.
It does seem pretty sad, this particular guy lives in a fake world instead of doing whatever he can to make his real one interesting. One where he's hot, got a hot wife and he's rich and won't ever get sick or die.
Though, if I was the wife, that computer would have been thrown out the window by now. If the TV has to go too, fine, because that's the crux of his argument, I spend all my time in a virtual world and you watch TV, it's totally equal hobbies! He's addicted and doing all that he can to justify the addiction, I don't think the virtual wife is really the main problem though. It's that he doesn't want to face real life when he spent 10 hours building a property.
I would definetly have a conversation about how yes, aging sucks ass. Getting diabetes and having gall surgery sucks ass, but you can either make your older life interesting by traveling and finding hobbies to do with your real wife, or you can sit inside everysingle day and slowly waste away while pretending you are living.
This is one reason why I don't visit chat rooms and don't play role playing games. Reading is quite enough, beyond that I like real people and real things.
And I'm only here now because I can't freaking sleep!