Most people often associate cheating with physical acts of intimacy between two individuals who are married to other people, but sometimes cheating can take place even when physical contact isn’t present.
A man was left questioning his wife’s loyalty to their marriage after he began to observe troubling signs in her behaviour once she got addicted to an online game she played with her in-game “partner”.
Happier times
In an anonymous post, the man wrote that he and his wife had been married for 10 years and have kids together.
He said even though there were times where they would have minor arguments, their relationship was relatively healthy and loving.
However, that was all going to change when he introduced an online game to his wife.
Addiction led to neglect
The man wrote that he and his wife both created an account and began playing the game with each other. As time passed, he slowly reduced the time spent playing the game due to busyness and a mediocre level of interest.
As such, his wife paired up with another player who acted as her “CP”, where he would act as her “partner” in the game.
“I asked my wife why she had a “CP”, but she said was just to complete missions and unlock outfits. I didn’t think too much about it at the time, so I let it go.”
However, the man began to notice that his wife would often lock herself in a small room every night to play until 2am and constantly chatting with her “CP”.
“She barely took care of the kids anymore and stopped caring about the housework too. Most of it ended up becoming my responsibility.
“I kept making excuses for her, thinking maybe she just didn’t want to disturb the kids while they were sleeping,” the man wrote.
Devastating discovery
Two weeks later, the man saw that his wife became extremely nervous and took her phone away when he wanted to use it to place an order online.
This set off alarm bells in his head and he decided to find out for himself later that night. To his horror, he saw “extremely flirtatious” messages exchanged between his wife and the “CP”.
The discovery weighed heavily on the man, who found himself unable to sleep, eat, or work properly. He then decided to talk it out with his wife and find out what’s going on.
When his wife came home after work, she immediately took a shower and went into the room to play the game without having dinner.
“At that moment, I really couldn’t hold it in anymore. I knocked on the door and said I needed to talk to her, but she told me to stop bothering her.
That was when I finally exploded and said, ‘If we don’t talk, then let’s get divorced.’ This was the first time I actually lost my temper.”
‘You neglected me!’
Eventually, the man’s wife finally agreed to talk and after he told her what he had found, she began to cry and accused him of not paying enough attention to her, forcing her to find it from someone else.
“I honestly find that very hard to accept. Even if there are problems in a marriage, does that make it okay to be flirtatious with someone else?
“We are still husband and wife, but she keeps arguing that she got to this point because I didn’t care enough about her,” said the man.
Towards the end of the post, he asked if his wife’s actions counted as “emotional cheating” and what he should do if it was the case.
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