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Two months before our wedding, my fianc\u00e9 David sat me down with a “serious” look.
He said: “Babe, I make enough for both of us. Why don\u2019t you quit your job? Focus on the wedding, our future, maybe even kids? You don\u2019t need to stress yourself with work anymore.”<\/p>\n
It sounded sweet. Supportive, even. I hesitated \u2014 I loved my job, but I loved him more.
So, I resigned. Packed up my office. Said goodbye to my independence.<\/p>\n
Three weeks later, I overheard him on the phone with his brother:
“She finally quit. Told you it\u2019d work. Now I\u2019ve got everything in my name and she\u2019s completely dependent.”<\/p>\n
My heart dropped<\/em>.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t say a word. I acted like everything was fine. Turns out\u2026 he already had another woman lined up<\/em>. Ladies, love isn\u2019t control. And your freedom isn\u2019t negotiable.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two months before our wedding, my fianc\u00e9 David sat me down with a “serious” look.He said: “Babe, I make enough for both of us. Why don\u2019t you quit your job? Focus on the wedding, our future, maybe even kids? You don\u2019t need to stress yourself with work anymore.” It sounded sweet. Supportive, even. I hesitated …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3767,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/3767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Instead, I called my old boss \u2014 begged for my job back. Thankfully, she agreed. I moved my stuff out while David was at work and sent him a note:
“You wanted a dependent wife. Too bad I remembered I was a damn queen.”<\/strong><\/p>\n
They broke up a month later because he tried to pull the same stunt on her.<\/p>\n