Category: Fatal Relationships

On any day in a newspaper can be seen an account of a domestic tragedy where a man or woman murders his spouse or lover.  Why should this be the case?  Love ought to cancel out any anger or violence, should it not?  And yet, as any policeman will relate, domestic calls are the most dangerous.  Love, a binding force of the greatest power, can also be the most fragile.  When two very insecure people love one another in an over controlled fashion, the fragile bonds of affection become unbearably stretched to the point that any one insult, no matter how small, suddenly jeopardizes the union.  The man demands exquisite attention from his wife.  Together at a bar, the woman looks at another man.  Her simple gaze becomes a gesture of betrayal.  The man takes his wife home, furious.  Drinking continues and the man slaps her.  Wounded, the wife finds his gun.  He taunts her and she kills him.  Love has metamorphosed into death.  As we will see, abusive relationships can easily catapult into tragedy.