I'm not condoning it in the least but I've been involved with a couple of women who frustrated me to the point where with a little bit of incentive, I would have struck out. Kind of like if you poke even a tame dog long enough sooner or later he'll bite......
I don't know the specifics of Ang's friend, but from the sounds of it, he possibly wasn't such a super nice guy when she met him and he went back to his roots. Most of the so called bad boys I have known were the same all through their relationships, lying cheating etc just never getting caught. The thing is, they're fast on their feet and since they have the gift of gab, can BS their way out of just about anything (frankly because they aren't honest with themselves so how can they be honest with anyone else?).
SOunds to me like this time, the bad boy can't talk his way out of the situation and it's bugging him. I bet any amount that if she DID forgive him, and things got back to normal, he'd be out playing around in no time....that's the way they roll......
It seems strange because every woman I have ever met who has gone for the bad boys, bitch and moan to the nice guys about said bad boy. One night in particular I was out with a bad boy friend of mine and a group of people (with his live in gf too). He was off being his flirtatious bad boy self and she was fuming.....waaa waaa waaa why is he doing that waaa waaa waaaa why is he like that...I finally had enough and said "you stupid bitch, he was like that with every woman before you, he was like that when you met him, he is like that now, WHY are you surprised? Did you REALLY think you'd change him"????
That's the rub: they DO think they'll change them....stupid stupid STUPID.....
(btw, the thing is, the bad boys can appear to be "great guys" but really, they're not....and women are just too blind to see that.....though some? some see right through the BS and the bad boys just move on....for eg: the guy in my example above? A neighbour of mine met him and he tried to pull his schtick with her, only thing is, she was a smart successful independant model and saw right through him....even went so far as to say to me: don't trust him, he's 100% full of shit......it took me 4 yrs to find out but she was right, 99% of everything he said to me in 10 yrs was 100% bullshit......for eg: he told me he caught his wife cheating on him and he walked away from his house, kids, cars, everything. Thing is, his wife caught HIM cheating and kicked his ass out.......)