Almost every man is capable of stringing you along for however long he decides to, faking emotions along the way.

They are capable of lying about their entire personalities, and acting like good men, while plotting your doom years in advance. To MOST MEN, women are an appliance.

They band together as a gender to essentially hold women hostage. They will absolutely legislate anything and everything they can about our lives.

Not only do we need to constantly and consistently vet, we need to immediately call men out for behavior we don't like -in public, wherever.

They are capable of ruining us in ways we can't ruin them.

It's also incredibly wise, if you do find a HVM, to always have multiple decent escape routes. The world is not on our side, and oftentimes, neither are the people around us - even if they say they're friends, or if you've known them a long time.

The minute you become "wife," you are at the mercy of a man, which is why the "honeymoon phase" ends so quickly. Now he can ruin you, if you stop actively making sure he doesn't.