Concluding Thoughts...

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  As my time blogging comes to and end many thoughts about what I have learned come to mind. First, I feel that I am better able to understand my initial question as to why women marry murderers. The answer that I have reached is that there are many combinations and possibilities as to why. Love, companionship, power and fame were the most common reasons stated by women or thought to be by psychologists.

I think that this question is a seemingly impossible to answer due to the wide variety of women and their varying reasons. Some may say that they are involved because they love them, when they are really only interested in the fame that comes along with it. So it is very hard to to get an accurate gauge of the real rationale.The case study's gave a small sample of a possible outcomes that could represent the general female consensus. Amanda Vicary, who conducted the study, found that dominance is not a characteristic that women find attractive. Also, that there is not a correlation between fame and if the women found the man attractive.

Before I started the research process for this blog, I thought that these women were crazy to become involved with these dangerous men. After researching the reasons behind it, I deduce that these women are often normal, but with a stipulation. Whether that is that they were abused as a child, have abandonment issues, or a poor relationship with their father. 

Some things that I wish I could research further, would be the many books that look at this topic. For the sake of time and my limited understanding on psychology jargon, I avoided using them. I think that these books may have different methods for arriving at the same conclusions about power and fame being possible factors.

Overall, looking into this topic further was very interesting and I enjoyed it. I am glad I chose this topic as an offshoot. Due to the fact that it was about women made it easier to relate in someways and offer my opinion. The research was intriguing and thought-provoking.