Woman moves to Australia 4 months after dating app match

News.com.au - 06/04
An American woman who moved to Australia for a man she’d known just a few months has revealed how a bad break-up caused her to transform her life.

An American woman who moved to Australia for a man she’d known just a few months has revealed how a bad break-up caused her to transform her life.

Devynn Madrid was 22 she started dating a man seven years her senior – and while things started out well, their relationship quickly became a lesson in what love should not be.

After their romance crashed and burned, Ms Madrid realised the “red flags” she initially missed, revealing how she eventually found true love with an Sydney man – despite living in LA.

“I was very young and naive,” Devynn, who is originally from Laguna Beach, California, told news.com.au.

“Looking back, the red flags were there from the start, but I was in a place where I just didn’t care”.

The relationship was punctuated with troubling behaviour, and isolated from her support system, leaving Ms Madrid trapped in a cycle of self-doubt.

“The only per...
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