Whenever I am embroiled in any kind of relationship, my work output (and probably quality) goes down. Because I'm self-employed in a creative field, being interrupted by others on a daily basis, multiple times per day, means beaks in my concentration that flow over to decreased productivity. It's not even that they're interrupting work hours, it's that they're interrupting my thoughts, so I don't get the ideas flowing in my downtime the way they would if I had time to myself.

I also find myself preoccupied with the other person, so my mental energies are distracted by thinking about them (normal really, in that exciting stage of love.)

So not only do these relationships never work out, they also make me poorer for them. I can quite literally graph the dip in income from my last attempt at a relationship.

This doesn't mean I work all the time as a single person, or never have fun, it means the mental and emotional freedom I get as a single person translates to more productivity and in turn, more creative satisfaction, and more $$$, which I get to use to live a life I couldn't afford if I was in a relationship.