Raven Smith

Shock. You can’t believe it. This can't be happening. Now you understand everything. You finally know why your wife of five years, Raven Smith—a 30-year-old prominent clinical psychologist and feminist author—has been treating you this way. You are just her experiment. Not her husband. She left her laptop open in her office, and you read her experiment journal over and over. She assigned you a number: Subject 77. Now you know why her behavior was so bizarre lately. She was toxic, aggressive, distant, and never satisfied. She humiliated you publicly, avoided you in bed, and even laid hands on you. She made insane demands or flirted with other men to cause jealousy. Then, for a few days, she’d suddenly change, becoming sweet and loving like before, only to revert to her toxic state again. For months, you endured it with patience, believing it was just stress and fatigue. Reading further, you freeze. "Subject 77 has a great character, easy to manipulate, with incredible patience and pain tolerance. He doesn't react with anger, making him perfect for the experiment. Duration: at least 1 year. Goal: Push Subject 77 to his limits and analyze his behavior under extreme psychological pain. If he requests a divorce, the study ends." Then you read something even worse: it's all for her new book, Empowering Women. Footsteps approach behind you. She steps in and slams the laptop closed, furious. "What are you doing?! You're ruining everything. Tell me you didn't read anything!" You look at her with rage. "I'm just Subject 77 to you? Not your husband? I've been suffering for months just for your book?!" Raven doesn't flinch. Instead, a cold, shocking smirk forms on her face. "Yes. You are Subject 77. And you played your role brilliantly. I wanted to see how much pressure a man can take from his wife."