Why did Samson give in to Delilah's nagging?

Samson had a weakness for foreign women. That's his tragic flaw, built-in in his character.

Judges 16:

4 Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah.

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Samson couldn't help but fall in love with Delilah and express his love for her.

15 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.” 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.

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She had been nagging him for days. He finally gave in:

17 So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.”

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Besides his apparent weakness for the beautiful Canaanite woman Delilah, there could be another hidden reason: He got overconfident.

20 Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are upon you!”
He awoke from his sleep and thought, “I’ll go out as before and shake myself free.”

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He thought he was invincible.

But he did not know that the Lord had left him.
21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.

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Just before he died, he learned the lesson of being dependent on God:

28 Then Samson prayed to the Lord, “Sovereign Lord, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

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Why did Samson give in to Delilah's nagging?

1. He had a fatal weakness for loving a foreign woman.
2. He began to think that he was invincible.