Forty-year-old David Pollard and 28-year-old Amy Taylor, married both in real life and in the online game “Second Life,” have split after Taylor caught Pollard’s avatar cozying up to an attractive female avatar on a virtual couch. “I caught him cuddling a woman on a sofa in the game — it looked real affectionate,” she said.

The U.K. couple’s passion for living through their “Second Life” alteregos “Dave Barmy” and “Laura Skye” had led to temptation before. In 2007, Pollard was caught red-handed having sex with a pixelated prostitute in the game, leading Taylor to hire a private investigator to look into his virtual infidelities.

“I looked at his computer screen, and I could see his character having sex with a female character. It’s cheating as far as I’m concerned,” she said. Since Taylor filed for divorce, Pollard has become engaged to the woman whose amorous avatar he cheated with.