Murder Mysteries

Been watching a lot of murder mysteries lately.

The one template all these tend to adhere to is that there is a very specific path to which a spouse murders another spouse, and it boils down to the individual need. That is...we can justify ANYTHING if we need it bad enough. The path goes as such:
Get married (you need a companion)
You get house and car (need to set up foundation for family)
You get kids (need something to take care of)
You need a good paying job (need to sustain)
You need to take care of spouse (you need life insurance)
You need to be an individual with your own life...BOOM! This is where the train first switches tracks into a collision.

For those who can get beyond this, you are a saint. Most of us cannot. They will sacrifice for kids, and themselves, not for their partner. Yes, there was a time when mom needed dad to be alive. That's long gone, because the choices for both parties are now wide open. Need is a selfish thing. We are selfish people. We will die alone and that's that.

You know that phrase "we grew apart."? That's horse shit. We are/have always been interior people. We wake up and have specific things we'd like to do. People seem to become parents to fulfill this sense of having to feel purpose. This purpose isn't always what it's cracked up to be, so people find an exit strategy. Often times people wonder why people can't just walk away or get divorced. I think this has to do with piling on another failure. Especially if you live in a community that shuns this. OR who are full of busy bodies. To them, it's far kinder to explain their spouse having met their demise tragically, then being part of the script. In this case, you get sympathy. What they've needed, since there's very little wiggle room for a divorce mother/father these days for understanding.

I think these shows are very popular because we are looking at what we are capable of. Every one of us. I think it's more rampant than we believe. We joke about it. But sometimes...truth can be funny.