Your brain loves to rewrite your past with the knowledge you have now. This is called hindsight bias. It makes things look clear that were not clear at all when you were in the situation.
Hindsight can make everything feel like it was obvious. Patterns feel clearer. Red flags look brighter.
But you did not have that clarity when you were in it. You were acting with the knowledge, feelings, and instincts you had at the time.
Even if someone warned you, even if part of you suspected something was wrong, the way you felt then mattered. Hope mattered. Fear mattered. Attachment mattered.
You were trying. You were surviving. You were not foolish for wanting things to work.
Be kinder to the version of you who did not know what you know now.