You do not -- you invest yourself in people that are worth a risk, and if they are you will re-learn to trust in time... what you do not do is wait until you are ready because you will never be ready, and because people who wait until the perfect time to do things usually end up never doing them.posted by Pufferish at 12:10 PM on October 29, 2007 Is there any third-party acquaintance that you could go