He Called It a “Compromise”—Until My Cats Exposed His True Heart

family—because I was afraid of being alone.

And then I thought about the way Mark said “If you really loved me, you’d do it.”

And I realized something that felt like a lesson written in fire:

Love that demands proof by betrayal is not love. It’s a test you can never pass without losing yourself.

That sentence—those words—felt like the kind of thing people continue reading …