Conflicted: Lust or Could It Be Love?

Everybody wants to be loved. So why did some men cheat? And why was Michael so afraid of it? He watched his mother and father work together the first twelve years of his life to build a business and a home for him and his two sisters. It wasn't until his father was murdered and a new man entered his mother's life, did he see the magic and sparkle, that comes from being in love with your soulmate. He lived through this in the authors second book, "The Magic in Being Special" by Sandra Hopkins." But he remembered the hurt and humiliation that his grandfather Asher Morton, had endured due to the betrayal and deceit of his second wife in the authors first book, "The Dark One" by Sandra Hopkins." He witnessed the emotional and physical abuse his Aunt Shelley lived through in the third in the series of the authors books about the Morton family, "Battered, but Not Broken." His two younger sisters both found everlasting love. One with a man that sacrificed his life for love and his youngest sister with an immortal wizard. Their story is detailed in the fourth of the series, "Diverged, Life Never Goes as Planned." Michael learned to protect his heart by hiding it and not letting anyone get close to him. But now as he entered middle age, he wondered, was he shortchanging himself. But he looked at the way each of these men showed their love so openly to the women that they loved. How did they choose the women to love and accept love from them? How could they be so sure that these were the women with whom they wanted to spend the rest of their lives? Did other men feel this way, but still ended up cheating?