Aussie Khara Williams met her ex-husband when she was 15 and split from him when she was 24, two years after she tied the knot.
In a new blog post, Khara revealed: "If I’m completely honest, I think I knew six months before getting married that, one day, I would leave him.
"That’s hard to put down on paper, because it makes me sound, well, cruel.
"But life and love isn’t black and white and I did love and adore him. We were best friends, but in many ways I also felt like his mother.
"Yet I just kept going because at that age, I genuinely thought it was the right thing to do."
Khara said the relationship made her question her sense of purpose and she shut herself off from her friends as she struggled to cope.
She added: "I questioned myself daily, even though I knew deep down, that wasn’t how it was supposed to feel. At all."
Khara, who's now happily married to husband Scott and mum to sons Jed and Tom, said it took her two years to muster up the courage to leave her ex – and they haven't spoken a word to each other since.
But she felt even more isolated following the split, because none of her friends had been through a divorce at that age.
She explained: "I felt a sadness so intense that it’s still difficult to put into words. I felt I’d failed the marriage and was terrified of being judged as a result."
Khara advises any women in a similar situation to open up to their friends, seek professional help and focus on the things they want to do for themselves.
She started going to the gym, where she met a whole new group of friends, moved to the coast, pushed herself to get a promotion at work and listened to inspirational podcasts.
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