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A desperate Liverpool woman is asking people online to raise money for her divorce.

Sara McNally, 36, says she needs the money to pay back a £25,000 loan she and her husband Neil took out to help pay for their house.

Until the loan is repaid, Sara is unable to move out of their marital home in Widnes.

Neil’s salary alone will not cover the £700-a-month repayments - and Sara cannot afford to pay the money and rent elsewhere.

Sara, who works in recruitment, said that the pair married in 2010 and although they “still care about each other very much”, they are “no longer making each other happy”.

She told the ECHO that turning to the crowdfunding website GoFundMe was her last resort.

Sara, who is originally from Liverpool, said she “feels like a failure” to have had to turn to the general public for help.

She said: “Neil and I decided to get divorced in late 2014. We put the house on the market but then everything fell apart.

“My dad was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer and then I had to have a much-needed major operation, so selling the house was not our priority.

“Now, if we were to put the house on the market we’d be lucky to get £100,000 for it. The mortgage is £80,000 so we’d be left with nothing what with paying the loan back too.”

Sara met Neil, who works full-time as a senior charity support worker and is profoundly deaf, on a blind date.

She said: “I didn’t sign at the time and he can’t lip read brilliantly so it was hard to get to know each other at first.

“Now we have more of a friendship than a relationship. We come from different places and we are going in different directions.”

Sara said she created the Go Fund Me page, which has so far raised nothing towards the £30,000 target, late one evening.

She said: “I feel like such a failure to have had to resort to crowdfunding but I would regret it if I did not look at every possible option.”

On Sara’s GoFundMe page, ‘Help Sara and Neil get a divorce’, she wrote: “Like many of you, Neil and I have taken on financial commitments which at the time were based on long term plans for our future together. As we no longer have a future as a married couple, these commitments have become burdens which have forced us to stay living in the same home and effectively tied together for the foreseeable future.

“Many of you who know me can attest that I am not someone who asks for help easily but I would genuinely like to give us a chance to make our new dreams a reality.

“While I do not know the intimate finances of my family and friends; I would not ask nor expect any of you to give to this fund. I would only ask that you share our story in the hope that kindly, charitable strangers may look upon our situation favourably and choose to help.”

To donate to Sara’s GoFundMe page, visit: www.gofundme.com/uphb3aek