"I’m examining my life and trying to figure out where to...

"I’m examining my life and trying to figure out where to place my bets."
"What’s the worst bet you’ve ever made?"
"That would be a relationship."
"What happened?"
"I entered into a relationship with a con artist. The thing is— I’m normally very methodical and calculated about things, but I let my desire for companionship override my logic, and I let myself be blinded. He used the pretense of a relationship to gather information about me, and by the time I figured out what was going on, he’d already stolen about $30,000 from me. It also affected my future relationships, of course. You always want to enter a relationship from a position of trust, and I have a hard time doing that now."