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Honestly, because my last relationship was a disaster that I'm still recovering from, years later. My then partner's "mother" (I prefer the term egg donor) was and still is horrifically abusive and managed to destroy just about every aspect of my mental health. So right now I'm focused on getting that back into shape as far as possible.
To make matters worse, ever since having experienced that, I tend to attract people who are in abusive situations. When they start talking about what they're going through I understand them on an entirely different level and wooops, there's the next one. And yeah, I learned my lesson the first time (well, sort of): don't start a relationship with someone in an abusive situation. If you're both interested, make sure they're fully out of that situation first, then you can start thinking about a relationship.