Does your parent's relationship influence how you view love?

Hi guys,

So there is a guy that I like and we are in a relationship for a while now, but it seems that there is a reoccurring problem that keeps happening. The guy says that I am always his first choice but he always tends to flirt and try to get with girls (this always leads him to heartbreak as he doesn't want anything from these girls except sex and then they come to realise it and they don't want him anymore so he always comes back to me. The last time which was a few weeks ago, there was another similar episode where after a girl broke his heart again, he called me crying saying that he is not fine and he doesn't know why he keeps doing that.

I'm just wondering about his behaviour as it seems a bit strange, and whether his parent's relationship influences him alot thats why he acts like this.

His mom and dad lives in two different houses and he grew up living with his mom who had a boyfriend. The boyfriend would always come over to their house and the mother would make the son cook and clean for both her and the bf and even make the son spend time with the bf more than his own father. So growing up, he never saw his mom and dad be intimate or show any kind of love for each other as his mom was always trying to make herself happy instead of fixing her own marriage. His mother didn't want to have a divorce as she thought it wouldn't be good for her son.

Would this kind of upbringing influence the guy I am with in the way that he knows that we are together and he doesn't want to lose me at all, and when we argue, instead of trying to fix the problem, he just goes off and flirts with girls to make himself feel better. Maybe he doesn't know what love is supposed to look like as he never saw his parents show love to each other so he got no idea about what it involves.

I'm just trying to understand the psychology of it...