Matteo met his first partner when he was seventeen. It was doomed from the start, but he had been desperate, so very desperate, for attention. No, not attention. Affection. Seventeen years of nothing more than a pat on the shoulder or a side hug from his parents did something to you. It would’ve been better to find someone he knew he could commit to, but that was the furthest thing on his mind. Six years later, nothing had changed. The only difference was it was a new person to be tossed out by.