They say love and relationships are tricky affairs and sometimes you never truly know who you’ll end up with.

But one mother is shedding light on her double dose of depression that resulted after she began to date a man she felt was in love with her.

Alvina Rayne from Philadelphia began dating her boyfriend two years back. With time, she started to gain more weight than she actually realized, and that really diverted her relationship in a new direction.

While she wasn’t an obese person, she slowly started to pack on the pounds after getting involved in a relationship with her abusive boyfriend.

From day one, he never treated her too well but she was blind in love and chose to ignore all the red flags that came her way.

“I just wasn’t able to break things off with him. I didn’t want to dump him and I also had the fear that I would never get any man because I had become so fat”- she claims.

But these thoughts were instilled by her lover only who continuously reminded her how lucky she was to have someone like him because she would never be able to lose weight or find another man.

The more days passed by, the more depressed she became, and that resulted in her turning to food as her savior. Yes, she started to eat unhealthy food to try and mask her emotions but deep down inside, they were eating her out.

There was a point where she was forced to buy men’s clothes as nothing would fit and that’s when her boyfriend called her a fat piece of trash- one of her life’s biggest lows.

But that was a turning point for her. She had enough and felt the time was come to bid farewell to her toxic lover and get her life together.

Next came hitting the gym and following a healthy lifestyle, which claims allowed her to get into the best shape of her life.

Throughout her struggle, there was just one driving force and those were the words, ‘fat piece of garbage’.

Today, Alvina makes a living as a successful blogger who motivates others from her life’s experience and never looks back at the toxic life she once lived.