He is an attractive young unmarried guy, who rodeos and works on horses which often are a lady's prize possession.
Today we discover he was sleeping with one girlfriend while his primary was in the hospital (from the news article)
It is not a leap of faith that one or more of these ladies had a serious love interest in him ... he lived there a long time.
Obviously, the competition for him is fairly good.
Runs to reason, in my opinion, that there is at least one third party love interest in him.
It only takes one