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

Watch how he treats the people who can do nothing for him — the waiter, the assistant, the person he thinks isn’t listening.

Watch what happens the first time you tell him no about something small.

Respect is not a feeling; it is a decision a person has made about your fundamental standing as a human being, and unlike love it holds under pressure, because it was built to.

I tested the wrong thing.

I tested for a warm feeling and got one and married it, and the warm feeling turned out to sit on top of a bedrock of contempt that a single refused bucket of laundry cracked wide open.

So now I test for the bedrock.