The older I get the more I'm fooled by prospective partners. When I was younger, the girls I was interested in were people I'd gone through life experiences with: school, general growing up, etc. But now, in my thirties, I'm meeting people randomly. And I'm realizing that character is pretty easy to fake (for a while). I knew that the girls in my past had character, because I watched them grow, overcome hurdles, and so on. But meeting people in your 30s removes all context and -- I'm finding, at least -- that people who lie and cheat and who are generally bad actors are really hard to distinguish from those people who don't act like that.