Rick has bad luck with women—not that he would admit that. He once found his fiancee having an affair with his roommate, and he beat up his roommate.

Then after, he got into a relationship with a woman who was his own father’s affair partner. Her name was Shelia, and she was a calculating witch, almost framed Rick for killing a man named Dwight—that he most definitely did not do. Then managing to get her arrested and deported back to Canada after his dad, Alex Connor, admitted to the affair on his mother and her stealing an invaluable silk-screen print.

So yeah, he had given up on romantic relationships to protect his heart.