The story is unfortunately loosely-based on a true one from my past.  It's about having a current girlfriend who is great, then having some other girl want you badly, and so since you're tempted, you decide to break up with the current girlfriend first so you're technically "free" to hook up with the new chick, thinking this is somehow respectful to the current girlfriend and the right thing to do instead of just cheating on her.  It's one thing to make up your mind character-wise that you're not going to be a person who cheats, but it's an example of a stupid thought process of a way younger and less wise version of myself.  Prior to this girlfriend, when presented with a similar situation, I didn't think twice, I just went ahead and cheated.  This time, I may have thought my own maturity at the time was improving with this approach, but it turned out to be incredibly poor judgement.  I not only hurt my girlfriend, I hurt myself, since I regretted it from that point forward in a classic case of not knowing what you had until it was gone.  A lesson learned for sure.