It's far easier to be assassinated if you just so happen to fall for someone that wants to kill you. T'is merely a precaution.

[God, is he trying to make her blush? Her heart skips a beat--he's just so very gentlemanly. It's hard to believe that he doesn't have ladies throwing themselves at him.]

Of course not. I feel the same as any other sentient being does.

T'is just far more simple to resign oneself to what I am and reap the rewards.