After reading the chapter, all I could say is that the world is really strange, maybe gone crazy. First of all, it's quite disturbing to think that love might actually be the key to the murder, that love itself might be the very root of the motives for the murder. Every time I see the news on TV about intimate or family-related murders, I am stunned and wonder how they could do such a thing. But anyway, I have observed that some do it to hide an affair from their spouse, some are for money, some are for authority (a certain family status), and some are just for attention. It usually happens between couples. Intimate partner homicide usually involves a man killing his partner, often after a long and escalating series of beatings on the woman. When women kill male partners, they typically do so in self-defense, although that defense may not qualify as such in a court of law. However, deaths attributable to domestic violence far transcend intimate partner homicides. Even non-intimate family members kill each other in so-called "family murders." Fathers kill children, mothers kill children, children kill parents, brothers kill sisters, and so on. Men sometimes kill other men for a woman for whom they compete sexually. These “killings of sexual competitors” are much fewer in number than killings of intimate partners or family members. In some cases, however, like in Scott Peterson's case, we can see that there's this thing about walking away from responsibility (e.g., fatherhood) and running off with someone else. Sometimes we can't even expect murder to occur in such a “happy” marriage, because they seem to be quite normal. In this regard, there was a time when I had a conversation with a friend about marriage and she simply said: “Sometimes I feel sorry for those who get married, because I see that most of them stay in marriage only out of commitment but never out of love. " It's really ironic, but I admit that in some cases it's true, as we now see them happen in real life. I'm not saying that all marriages or relationships would end this way, but we never know what will happen, because anything is possible . Some perpetrators, when they carry out their actions, commit suicide. Many more Americans die by suicide than by homicide The same could be said of homeless women who die on the streets, since about half of homeless women report that "escape from abuse" is the reason for their homelessness. Prostitutes have similarly suffered huge amounts of interpersonal abuse from male intimates, family members, and clients Sometimes people are downright unpredictable And society itself might just be the thorn in my side. After reading the chapter, I don't know what to feel or even say about it , because at a certain point it seems impossible. If it hadn't been for the book, I wouldn't have even discovered that "intimate" murder exists. But the more I read about it, the more I realize there are even deeper questions. I noticed that in murders it is not possible to really identify the motives in general. Each one has an individual pattern and is very intricate. We can't even say whether the suspect is crazy or has a psychological imbalance. I may have watched a lot of CSI or Law & Order, Court TV and the like, but for me I think through reading it makes me more aware of how dangerous we people could be..