I left my fiance seconds into our wedding, I was ready for happily ever after, but it ended with 5 words at 6am
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A MUM has revealed she jilted her fiance on their wedding day despite being 'terrified' everyone would hate her - but it was the 'best decision' she's ever made. Alexis Saya was due to marry her ex-partner on 16 April 2023 in Huntington, Indiana, but made the 'hard' choice to leave on the morning of their big day.
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The couple first met in high school and share a four-year-old child together, but had been on and off for years yet Alexis still remained in the relationship despite knowing she 'wasn't happy'. Despite being faced with no job and being a single mum, the 23-year-old woke up on her wedding and just 'knew she had to' cancel the $40,000 (£32,000) celebrations her mum had forked out for.
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She describes how she turned to her partner while still in bed on the morning of the wedding and said 'we can't get married today' - before leaving him that day. Taking to TikTok, the student nurse shared a photo from her wedding day compared to now, which has since gone viral with 144,100 views.
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One photo shows Alexis looking tear-stricken at the camera captioned 'the day I left my fiance on our wedding day'. The next photo shows her beaming at the camera captioned 'it's now been 16 months'. Many users took to the comments to praise the mum for her 'brave' decision while other users questioned, 'why the wedding day?'.
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The mum wants to encourage others to leave a relationship if they are 'questioning' whether they should and she now 'cannot wait to get married one day' to the right person. Alexis who lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana, said: "I don't think that I've genuinely ever done anything harder. I felt like it was a decision I had just made but almost I didn't have a say in it. I didn't have control over it.
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