When I date I’ve never had too much of a problem with big egos, but my girlfriend Brit just broke up with maybe the biggest ego of all time. I only met him once, but it was the kind of thing you don’t forget and right away I asked her what her problem was, hanging onto this guy for over like five minutes, let alone the two or three months she dated him.
They met on the Net on a couples site I don’t use anymore because of a few disasters too many. Brit was talking about him for like three weeks before they actually met, going on and on about how he was an actor and she’d never dated an actor before. I kept asking what she’d seen him in, or if there was anything about him I could look up, but she said he was sketchy on the details. Still, she totally believed him and the photos he sent her did look pretty good.
Ater they got together a few times she was still excited, if also a bit confused. She liked him but she told me he never once asked her anything about herself, like, not even once on three dates. But she kept going out with him because he thought he was the hottest thing going. I think a lot of you know where this kind of thing leads, and it’s never good, is it. Or you’re really lucky if it does work out. So I met him when I hooked up with both of them at a movie. Brit was right about him being kind of hot, but he wasn’t exactly Brad Pitt, and anyway I was just concerned about the way he treated my friend, that was it. I was with an old friend (a cool guy I used to date), but he didn’t say much to us beyond introductions. After the movie we went to a bar and suddenly he opened up, but not in a good way. It was all about him, of course.
As for acting, he didn’t have much to say about his experience but he sure had a whole lot to say about his abilities! He kept saying “I’m a triple threat, I’m a triple threat!” over and over, until we finally got him to explain just what that meant, and he just about barked it out: “I can SING, I can ACT and I can DANCE!” It’s an amazing thing to have all three, but he just came off like a lot of hot air and then he became really annoyed when we started asking him about his “credits”, movies or television, that kind of thing. He told us we wouldn’t understand his “vision” anyway, so that sort of became his excuse for not admitting to us that he was either a bad actor or an unsuccessful one anyway.
Brit didn’t last too much longer with him. I don’t want to give actors a bad name or anything, but this particular one? I bet he can’t even remember Brit’s name. That’s how into himself he was. So it wouldn’t hurt to tread carefully when you date an “artist”..;)!