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Bad Boyfriends as Inspiration — Still Not There Yet pg190
Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic
Sure I will take some responsibility for the next decade of failed attempts to find a permanent partner or something like it… ill advised as they all turned out to be from this lofty perspective of hindsight. I’ll credit impatience for my part in helping a relationship to swirl the drain faster. I wanted to discover the ghastly hidden faults before they emerged naturally. It simply wasn’t practical to slog through yet another starry-eyed six months of time, money, energy and emotional investment. A talented psychopath can keep the goblin restrained right up to the half-year mark. That’s when the knots unravel. I got good at testing for red flags by finding buttons to push. I could get a man to look cold, turn his back and walk away — or say something obscene and punctuate it with a door slam in two weeks flat. My record was twenty hours. (Well that saved another half a year of my life.) — From Chapter 10
About this time in the mid 90s I started paying attention to practicality. Two very expensive items stood out. I had been spending too much on both boyfriends and custom framing my artwork. Relationships were a high risk emotional investment, and framing cost thousands of dollars. Finding an alternative to professional framers was…
