I won't settle for anything less than a relationship that enhances my life and who I am and provides the same to the other person, as well.

But how can you ever know for sure? People do tend to be on their best behavior in the beginning. It takes a considerable amount of time to know someone, yet sometmes even folks who have been married for decades come to realize that they really don't know that person who shares their bed. How scary is that?

Take this story for example, he was a Mesothelioma lawyer and she a college professor of all things- the study of human behavior. She thought she knew this man, the father of her 3 children and a pillar of the community with aspirations one day to enter the world of politics until...