Newness

When we meet Matt Rainey, our protagonist is nearly forty. He's a guy who's always has casual relationships and casual sex. He's never been committed. He can't seem to settle down. He meets a girl, he has sex with her, they spend a couple weeks together, when things fall into a rut, they part. That's how it's been for him since he was in college. The girls pass in a haze of long legs and names - Frankie, Natalya, Melanie...

He comes back to them occasionally - every girl has a place in her heart (bed) for Matt. So, one day, he returns to Alexandra. Alex is a peculiar girl. He's still not entirely sure what he saw in her, or what he still sees. But he comes back. And as he walks in the front door and sees her on the couch, a child asleep in her arms, he knows he's really done it this time.

Alex doesn't ask him to change his life. That would be the one surefire to get him to walk out and leave her for good. Matt tries to be a decent father while continuing his usual activities, but he soon realizes that this is not working, and his relationship with his son is suffering. He knows he has to change, and Alex knows that the way to get him to stay is to let him change himself. So that is where we are, following Matt as he tries to come to terms with what he was and who he's now become.

It sounds like a good plot for a movie, actually, now that I think of it. Thoughts?