Confessions Of An Avatar-Based Cheater

What if you considered cheating in Second Life as wrong, and that it constituted "whatever my real life partner would be hurt by"-- but still engaged in sexual and romantic acts that easily fit within that definition?  Why would you do it?  In "My Confession", Ms. Night Morrisey unburdens herself in a painfully honest and intimate self- examination.  Before launching her SL affair, she notes, "my husband and kids and co-workers have never known me to be more alive, and that I've never before had so much to offer them."  So this secret life of hers has an upside for the people who might be most hurt, if they knew everything.  "But that's not what this post is about," she continues, heedless. "This post is about owning my garbage, being real, and not hiding behind flimsy equivocations."  She does so here.