Samson’s troubles begin here. It appears he does not seek the counsel of God nor heed the counsel of his parents as he begins on his path to eventual self-destruction.
Starting here, it appears Samsom did what he wanted when he wanted. Set apart from birth, reared by what all evidence were God fearing parents, he grows into a weak man, unwilling to control his impulses.
Physical strength, yes.
But Samson was not a serious man. He broke his Nazarite vows over and over. He liked to play games with people but couldn’t take his own medicine. His anger got the best of him, and his sexual impulses cost him dearly.
It’s interesting that the man who did what was “right in my eyes” would eventually lose them.
Great strength, even God-given, with no self-control doesn’t end well.
Judges 14:3, 7 ESV
[3] But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
[7] Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson’s eyes.
