Ralph simply does not know how to love. He hates himself and he hates everybody else.His relationships aren't based on camaraderie and commonalities, they're based on whether or not someone is willing to stroke his ego or give him some clout. He put spyware on Faith's laptop, he did his best to isolate Pantsu from her family. Hell, even took a picture of Warski's passport to use as a weapon. He collects blackmail and is always willing to release revenge porn. Ralph conducts himself like a little girl. He fights like one too.
Ralph can not understand or conceptualize adult relationships- romantic or platonic. This is why all his women flee and get restraining orders and why he has no friends.
The only relationship template he has, and that his piggy BPD brain can grasp, is his mom. Sandra loved her little monster unconditionally, no matter how vile he was, no matter how he abused her, cursed her etc.. Sandra loved her tantrum throwing, lazy, useless man child son and let him leech off of her her entire life. Ralph thinks every woman should behave just like his mom, esp once they say they āloveā him.
He seems to think declaration of love is some unbreakable, non-negotiable contract that canāt ever be rescinded regardless of his behavior. He doesnāt understand that āunconditional loveā is something a parent gives to a child. Unconditional love is something for children, not adults. Iāll also add any person that constantly talks about loyalty is usually the last person on earth that deserves any and they also tend to be the most disloyal, backstabbing POS imaginable. Their babble about loyalty is pure projection, they just want to be sure they can stab you in the back first.
Ralph also preys upon younger women with no self-confidence. Nora gtfo after she matured beyond her teens and realized Ralph was a dime a dozen loser. After that Ralph focused on desperate, low IQ girls with major self-esteem issues. Ralph acting like he could be some trad-dad is the most absurd part. Even at eighteen Faith realized it was a joke and ran back to CA after getting thumbed.
Manda, otoh, actually fell for the absurd BS. Even after Manda had to rent a house in her name to get a 34 year old man out of mommyās HUD house, even after Harry had to subsidize her rent and living expenses because Ralph couldnāt afford it, even after Amandaās family had to buy all her baby supplies, even after cowardly Gunt moved to the third world to make Harryās money go further and run from his debt and problems, even after she had to use her dadās CC to marry this giant loser she stayed. Only after Harry finally stopped supporting them she got a taste of Gunt being the real head of the household and this was finally enough to make her flee.
Ralphās trad roleplay is as empty as his savings account. He is the ultimate example of all talk, no action in every aspect of his life. Itās why heās alone in a $250 a month cinderblock apartment unit in the third world. He couldnāt even afford to live in Tijuana. At least Xander has a real dad that can afford to live in San Diego with his mom.
Ralph is a weak, scared little man with a big mouth. If he lives long enough to ever try to crawl back into the USA he will have to find some mentally ill, drug addict woman living on SSI to leech off of and recreate the idea relationship he had with Sandra.