My Husband Threw Me Out in My Wedding Dress and Told Me I’d Come Crawling Back Without His Money — He Never Learned the Answer to the Only Question That Mattered Until He Walked Into My Lobby Begging the CEO of the Fund That Held His Company

Do not build your test around whether he loves you.

Love is real, and love is wonderful, and love will not protect you, because love is a feeling and feelings visit and depart and can coexist, in the same human chest, with contempt.

A man can love you and still believe, underneath, that you are lesser — and the day you act as though you are not lesser, the love will not save you, because it was never load-bearing.

Build your test around respect instead.