Couple who met on controversial Ashley Madison site reveal they are STILL together 20 years later - and have no regrets about cheating on their spouses

A mates who met 2 decades agone done nan pro-infidelity making love tract Ashley Madison has revealed they person zero regrets and consciousness that their matrimony is arsenic happy arsenic tin be.

Back successful 2004, Michael Oshust and Stephania Meyer, of Nova Scotia, were some joined to different group but neither matrimony was going well, arsenic they told Business Insider.

Michael, 55, was successful nan midst of a divorcement pinch his wife, who he'd been pinch for six-and-a-half years. 

For her part, Stephania, 52, had been pinch her now-ex hubby 11 years, and had 2 daughters pinch him - but was desperately unhappy and leaning toward divorce.

Stephania and her ex had successful truth implicitly agreed to put disconnected splitting up until aft nan adjacent Christmas to springiness their daughters 1 past vacation together arsenic a family. 

At nan aforesaid time, Ashley Madison was ramping up its trading efforts, and would soon summation wide notoriety for its tagline: 'Life is short. Have an affair.' 

'I heard galore power ads for Ashley Madison and it peaked immoderate curiosity arsenic I was missing companionship successful my marriage,' Stephania told DailyMail.com in 2019, past connected nan juncture of their 15th anniversary.

The brazen measurement that nan work championed infidelity moreover led to its ads being banned successful Singapore successful 2013 for its 'flagrant disregard of our family values and nationalist morality.'

Still, it gave Michael, past an IT task manager, a discreet action for starting to day different group pinch nan finalization of his divorcement not yet realized.

As for Stephania, past a stay-at-home mom, she claimed that she had initially signed up retired of curiosity alternatively than pinch nan definitive intent of uncovering an matter partner.

In immoderate case, nan pair, some based successful Ontario astatine nan time, recovered each different done Ashley Madison and began chatting.

Michael described to BI that some were 'yearning' for a deeper relationship and 'intellectual conversations.'

Stephania recalled that astir of her messages were requesting nudes - but only Michael had asked her really she was. 

They besides bonded complete a shared affinity for nan aforesaid stone music. 

'It intrigued me, truthful I conscionable sent a small statement back,' Stephania told nan outlet. 'And past we conscionable kept messaging. We had truthful overmuch to talk about.

'It sewage to nan constituent wherever each time I'd get nan kids disconnected to schoolhouse and title location to get online conscionable to chat pinch Michael.'

She yet began processing existent feelings for her caller online beau. 

'It frightened maine because I'm not a cheater per se,' she admitted, adding: 'It conscionable felt truthful different. Natural, even.'

Six weeks aft their first messages were exchanged, nan duo met successful personification astatine a java shop successful October 2004.

'I opened nan door, and I mildly gave her a bully kiss. And that was nan champion emotion I'd ever had successful my life astatine that point,' Michael recalled to BI.

From there, they kept seeing each different much and much frequently, but keeping everything clandestine.

Nonetheless, it only took a period from their first in-person gathering for Stephania's hubby observe emails from Michael and realized what was going on.

From there, he kicked her retired of nan house.

After her divorcement was finalized, Stephania recalled her ex admitting that he knew thing was going connected arsenic she'd started to glow and return amended attraction of herself. 

It didn't return agelong for Stephania and Michael to move successful together - successful a location adjacent her 2 girls, who were past 5 and 7 years old.

Though Stephania did her champion to beryllium a changeless beingness successful her daughters' lives, she was devastated erstwhile they yet trim disconnected interaction pinch her, moreover blocking her 'on everything.'

And she became thing of a pariah amongst her different family and immoderate friends.

But she and Michael were undeterred and went up pinch tying nan knot successful 2007, successful Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pinch 2 friends successful attendance. 

Eventually, nan 2 relocated to Nova Scotia and now co-own a house-painting business.

Two decades aft their first meeting, Stephania reflected of their relationship: 'I wouldn't waste and acquisition it for nan world.'