My Boyfriend Proposed Right After Seeing My Luxury Apartment—He Had No Idea It Was a Test

For who I thought he might be. “I think the worst part,” I said slowly. “Is knowing that he wouldn’t have survived the real storms.

Like… if things actually got hard.”

Jules put her carton down and looked me dead in the eye. “He’s not your storm shelter, babe,” she said. “He was just the weak roof you hadn’t tested yet.”

And somehow, that landed harder than anything else.

People love to say, “You’ll know it’s real when things get hard.”

So, I made things look hard. And what did he do? Ghosted me.

Ran. Because it was clear that Ryan wasn’t in love with me. He was in love with the idea of me, the lifestyle, the convenience, the curated illusion.

But the second that cracked, even just a little, he folded. Not everyone can handle the truth behind the shine. But me?

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