Original Advice

DONT: Don't test people with impossible standards.

Stop Booby-Trapping Trust with Tests

You hide behind quality control. You call it discernment. It's fear. You stage loyalty drills no one can pass, then record their failure as evidence you were right. Meanwhile you stay unnamed, unrisked, untouched. Perfection is camouflage. Put down your clipboard. Let someone enter with dirt on their shoes. If you crave closeness, stop locking the door and blaming the hallway.

Testing gives you control without revealing need. It keeps you superior and safe. But tests measure obedience, not devotion; precision, not presence. Almost-love dies in lab conditions. Standards belong to work, not intimacy. People are flawed instruments; they still make music. Real trust grows in drafts and typos. Say what matters. Let them show you, imperfectly. Choose contact over control. Progress outruns purity.

Cosmic Context

Mutable earth, ruled by Mercury, you refine what you love. Your power is discernment that heals, not secret trials that starve the heart.

Action

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Delete the secret test; ask the question out loud.

You are allowed to want out loud and still be safe.