Cyber love leads Down Under August 27, 2003 A Welsh woman told her husband and son she was going to the shop, then boarded a flight to Australia to be with a man she met on the internet. Margaret Fiore, 40, has now been granted permanent residency status in Australia and says she has no regrets about leaving husband Chris, 53, and son Sam, 13, for an Adelaide factory worker called Steve.
"Life with Christopher was dull," Mrs Fiore, who has had her lover's name tattooed on her shoulder, told British newspaper the Daily Mail. "We never talked, which is why I spent most evenings on the internet. "Steve was a rebel like I used to be, and Adelaide was so much more glamorous than Cardiff. "Life's too short to settle for misery." The Fiores had been married for 18 years when Mrs Fiore began spending up to 18 hours a day talking to strangers in internet chatrooms. Mr Fiore said he did not see her seven-month friendship with Steve as a threat, as he was on the other side of the world, and was himself married with a young daughter. Whole text at http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/26/1061663789737.html In the morning, at twelve o'clock, she is far away - Packing a bag after having a chat, Meeting a man from the Internet She (what did we do that was wrong) Is Having ( we didn't know it was wrong) Fun (fun is the one thing that money can't buy) Something inside, that was always denied, for so many years,.. She's leaving home, bye bye.
