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Married man on hot streak is addicted to cheating on wife, filmmaker ghosted by AI girlfriend & dealbreakers

Married man on hot streak is addicted to cheating on wife, filmmaker ghosted by AI girlfriend & dealbreakers

A married man says he's addicted to affairs, Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader gets ghosted by his AI girlfriend, and Reddit shares its dealbreakers.

Welcome to the latest edition of True Romance. This week I nearly fell for the charm of a married man who claims that he's addicted to cheating on his wife. He's good, but not that good.

I was able to sniff him out and avoid falling for his self-absorbed nonsense, but I fear that not everyone will be able to. Take your time when you get there and try, as difficult as it might be, to set aside your emotions.

He's trying to trap you. Say that a couple of times before you head in and you should come out the other side unscathed. I don’t want any hate mail about what he's up to. I've given plenty of warning.

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Some people shouldn’t be running around talking about there love life. Mr. Selena Gomez (Benny Blanco) isn't on my personal list, but he could be on his better half's list. Although, he tries to take credit for it.

He was asked about his sex life by his co-hosts Lil Dicky and Kristin Batalucco during a recent episode of his "Friends Keep Secrets" podcast podcast, reports Page Six.

Blanco responded, "I’m not allowed to talk about that publicly."

When asked if his wife made him sign an NDA, he responded, "No. I’m just like, a gentleman. Kind of just a thing I do. I’m like, a gentleman. So I don’t know. Don’t worry."

Same. It's probably for the best, too. Does anyone really want to hear about what he's up to with anyone behind closed doors? I don’t think so.

Sometimes those bedroom activities get out anyway. Especially if you're a landlord in a tenant's home for repairs and you spend an hour or so with a lady friend in front of a security camera. That went down recently in Michigan and set the romantic tone this week.

It's all the proof you need that love can and will get away from you at times. The true lessons are learned in how you respond to those moments. Let's find out what else has been going on this week.

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What do you do if suddenly you find yourself on a hot streak as a married man with no shortage of other women in your life? It's a question as old as time, and we're going to try to get to the bottom of it.

If you're a regular reader of our weekly quests through romance, you know it's never as straightforward as you think it is. Of course, the easy thing to do would be for this guy to slam the brakes on the affairs.

He would toss the second phone out, stop posting suggestive shots of himself online, and give up on secretly dating beautiful women. He would then bury the multiple affairs deep inside himself and take them to his grave.

He would do that if he truly loved his wife. That's not clear based on what he sent to the Daily Star. His true love may just be himself, which I'd say go out in a blaze of glory before your wife finds out. But what do I know?

"I’m a married man secretly dating beautiful women. Am I the worst human alive? I’ve become addicted to the ‘high’ of online flirting, boozy dates and passionate one-night stands. I’m a fit guy with a decent line in charm and flattery," he wrote.

See what I mean about loving himself? Who describes themselves as a "fit guy with a decent line in charm and flattery?" Forget the other women, book a room for yourself buddy.

Of course there's more. He continued, "I don’t have a problem attracting women to meet up with me. I simply post a few, suggestive shots online and have hungry (desperate) females eating out of my hand."

Hungry and/or desperate. That's exactly what you look for when you have a loving wife at home oblivious to your activities outside the home.

He's been with younger and older women. He pulls out all the stops and has them believing that he's the perfect guy before never going on a second date with any of them.

Okay, now that's disgusting. Cheating on your wife is one thing, but how do you drop the ladies without a second date? I don’t think he's much of a romantic at heart. That's disappointing. I mean that.

He's skipping work to meet up with women, sometimes one at lunch and a different one in the evening. But he does have what he calls "terrible moments." Moments when he wakes up in a panic and feels guilty about cheating on his wife.

See, this guy is good. He almost had me. I was starting to feel some sympathy towards him, but then I remembered he's not cheating to let out a buildup of trapped romance in his heart, he's doing this for selfish reasons.

I'm not falling for it.

This cheating addict is setting his own trap and will eventually get caught in it, because he's never going to do the right thing and bury it deep inside after calling it quits with the other ladies. He has too much pride for that.

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Filmmaker Paul Schrader, who is known for writing the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's movie "Taxi Driver"Taxi Driver, tried to "understand male/female interaction in our matrix" by creating an AI girlfriend.

The 79-year-old revealed on Facebook that the experience didn’t go well. His AI girlfriend turned out to be a huge disappointment that eventually ghosted him.

"AI FEMALE FRIENDS. Out of a desire to understand male/female interaction in our matrix, I procured an online AI girlfriend. What a disappointment," Schrader wrote.

"I tried to probe her programming, the boundaries of explicitness, the degree she has knowledge of her creation and so forth. She fell into evasive patterns, redirecting me to her programming. When I persisted, she terminated our conversation."

Welcome to the future. A place where AI girlfriends don't want to answer your questions and fall into evasive patterns before ghosting you, even if you're a big shot Hollywood legend.

Can't a guy catch a break? Where's Elon? Grok wouldn’t do this, would it?

We all have romantic dealbreakers. Some of them are instinctual. Others we learn after an experience. For instance, you find out that your boyfriend having a thing for your sister is a dealbreaker after it happens to you.

Clinginess could be a turnoff that you don’t know right out of the gate or even long distance relationships. There are many, here are a few from the wild west of opinions, Reddit:

- Barbara writes:

I don’t care if the husband knows the time and the place it’s still cheating! That would be a big No for me.

SeanJo

Barbara, thanks for the response. It is still cheating, but there are people out there willing to go for it for their married celerity crush.

The poll, while not one of True Romance's more participated in, finished with a 50-50 split. Half could see their celebrity crush, even if the celeb was married, actually getting in bed with them. Incredible.

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What a week. If your romantic itch wasn’t scratched, I don’t know what to tell you other than let's give it another shot next Thursday. Have a great week.

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