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...When Marcus looks back on the experience, he says he attributes much of the cheating to his ex’s general self-absorption. “I think I was drawn to him initially for the same reasons he cheated on me,” Marcus says. “I was a little bit lonely, and he had this incredible personality and was always really entertaining. I found out later though that he was completely self-important...
...Marcus says he eventually went back to the boyfriend, only to discover that his partner’s self-obsession just wouldn’t fade. This was clear to Marcus when the boyfriend began spending “hours and hours and hours” obsessing over an audition tape he wanted to submit to “The Real World” in the spring. Near the end of their relationship, Marcus says he began cheating on the boyfriend out loneliness...
...thought he was so wonderful and he couldn’t understand why anyone would ever cheat on him,” Marcus says. “He was so angry with me he screamed at me for hours and tried to slam my fingers in the door...
...when the cheating is no longer a front, and is well known on campus, it can often become a source of competition between cheating-heavy couples. When Marcus was still with his boyfriend, he said the competition between them drove them both to cheat. Marcus said he sometimes felt expendable to his boyfriend and wanted to prove that he too could attract someone from outside their partnership...
...There are so many games in relationships, and that’s why they always feel so unnerving,” Marcus says. “I think relationships with a lot of cheating or flirting in them always make it feel like one person is ahead of the other one. You never want to be in that position where you feel like you care way more, or don’t have as many options as the other person...