[jondubois]

Sometimes you just need stability in your personal life in order to take risks in your professional life. It's not necessarily about financial stability, it could just be about emotional stability.

Having a genuine relationship with someone is a good way to stay grounded in your perception of all other human relationships.

Too many times in life, people just want to exploit you; if you don't have a model of what a healthy relationship looks like then soon enough you will be surrounded with the wrong kind of people and you won't even realize it.