Home-Wreckers aka Relationship Opportunists

Continuing from last week's article we have the second type of relationship coward: the home-wrecker. The home-wreckers of tomorrow are born during the quarter-life years! Why the sudden scourge? A variety of factors conspire to make it so:

1)People are coupling up! A greater percentage of the opposite sex is married or otherwise occupied. This increases the chances of liking someone in a relationship.

2)The date-able age range has expanded in breadth to include older men & women who have been on the market longer and likely found someone to settle with. Their greater experience has also allowed them to get comfy in their situation and more susceptible to a home-wrecker's fresh influence. After all, it's still flattering to be desired.

3)Lastly, quarter-lifers haven't learned to reign in those impulses that destroy relationships. Many operate emotionally, reasoning that their prey is unhappy and would be better off leaving their significant other.

So! We've got increased opportunity without morals. Or rather, the highest moral is held to be “love”. The self-aware home-wrecker knows what they are doing and doesn't care; these people often do not think far beyond the acquisition of their prey and live more for that initial thrill of attraction. The self-deluded home-wrecker, on the other hand, truly believes they are liberating their prey; they tell themselves that if this person were truly happy they wouldn't interfere....which is utter bull. No one breaks up a relationship for selfless reasons.

Girls, I don't care if his girlfriend is a frigid, arrogant cow who communicates in blinks (which would be a tricky way to convey arrogance, by the way); you're not acting for him, you're acting for your own self-interest. If a home-wrecker truly cared about the person they pursued, they would not bring on so much pain and self-recrimination onto their mark's head by breaking up a relationship. Who are they hurting? The very person they claim to fight for.

Maybe those who “follow their hearts” need to listen a little closer....because I don't think true affection could ever warp a life the way these people do.