Sometimes I feel like I don’t even know myself and I have no enjoyment in my lfe. This is when I joined a virtual life on the internet. At first I felt silly thinking these people could really be my friends and my only escape from reality. I rush home after a long day, just to enter into a world where i can be and do anythnig i could possible imagine. When normally, I wouldn’t have the guts for outside of my new virtual home.

My day in cyber world starts out by dressing up my Avitar. Mostly in a sexy costume, or lingerie to show off to my “make believe husband.” From there, my Avitar goes to work, shopping, cooks dinner, and many of the normal everyday activities. Then in the evening in my cyber world I go out on the town. I go into bars, dance, sing, and talk to many different Avitars. I know this may not seem unusual back in reality, however, I am shy and scared to ever do these things outside of the computer.

I stay in my life away from home, until I cannot possibly hold my eyes open another second. Once, reality kicks back in. I’m left lost and alone. My husband doesn’t understand. He seems to keep pretty distant these days. All day at work I thought nothing except to go home and get online. These were my days for about 4 months. Until I got a virus from an email, and my computer crashed. My computer was in the shop for over 2 weeks. I just couldn’t cope. I litterally thought I was nothing without my friends whom I didn’t personally know, except from online. I felk like someone beautiful and in control, being dolled up every night. (My Avitar, that is). Now my polyester pants are starting to look like someone who walked out of an elderly woman’s magazine, which depresses me.

My husband noticed how down I had been. While at the same time he was over joyed that for the time being the computer had died. I came home from work one night and found in my office, my computer back and running like new. Beside my desk, there were two packages with a note on top that read:

“My belived wife, whom I seem to have already lost. You fill find enclosed in these boxes, a sexy outfit for you to go out with me tonight. So you may have the time of your life. In the other is lingerie, for you to prance around in for me, after our date is finished. If these to not meet your needs, you may return to your computer and be sheltered from society, your real life, and me.”

Needless to say, I did have the time of my life that night, and it didn’t end there. Now, instead of being online to escape my life, my husband and I shop for new costumes and lingerie for “our” new life together.