'My new husband-to-be was a rebound relationship that should never have gone beyond a fling,' confesses our author (she is pictured dancing on her wedding day).
The thing is, I'd moved to Australia alone just a few years prior, so with most of my friends cut off and all of my family living on the other side of the world in the UK, no one really noticed what was happening to me.
It was only when the whirlwind wedding came around a year later and I was reunited with my loved ones that it all came crashing down.
He didn't like me co-parenting well with my ex and thought it wrong that I was still close to my former in-laws.
Our author posed for these happy wedding photos despite knowing her marriage was doomed.