Bethenny Frankel Opens Up About Her Unlucky Love Life: ‘If Anybody Ever Asked Me What I Wanted More, It’s Love’

“Everybody would think all I ever wanted was success,” she told People. “I think the success I created was probably like a false sense of life being on television and connecting with an audience. But if anybody ever asked me what I wanted more, it’s love.”

But Bethenny’s failed love life does come with a silver lining. “I learn more from my mistakes than my successes,” she shared. “As I say in the book, you think you have someone pegged and you feel blindsided and you are afraid that you’ll do it again, so you don’t even want to get into anything because you’re scared.”

After calling it quits with her boyfriend of one year, Bethenny isn’t in a rush to date again – especially if it involves blind dating! She explained it’s her “idea of hell.” She added, “I don’t like small talk. I like big talk."

Through all of her dating drama, she’s decided to never get legally married again. “I’m not saying I won’t stand on a beach and commit to somebody, I just don’t want to be in a contract with someone I love. I want a partner.”