Not taking the bait

There are people who seem to need to wander in and out of multiple relationships all their lives. Many times overlapping one with another and leaving everyone sad, except maybe the one doing the wandering.

I wonder.

Is it the game of not getting caught that makes it exciting.

Or the feeling of being able to have more people you think adore you?

Or the never ending need to fill a void that can't be filled?

Is it the thrill of cheating? And if it is, does that dim when there is no one to cheat on? Or do you have to create enough situations so that it feels like you're cheating?

What makes a person throw away good relationships for fly by night ones? Especially when one of the perks of a so called "Good" relationship is that the other person will often let you use them to satisfy your narcissistic personality.

Whatever the answers for all these are, I am forever grateful not to be involved in any of this anymore. Tonight I needed to ask a question and the answer, after twenty years, was still calculated to try and make me feel less than. But I'm smarter now. I can't be hooked anymore. I give that honor to all the other fish in the sea, too naïve or too free to care.