When will the eternal family love triangle end?

The most common cause of homicides since time immemorial has been money or sex.

Shakespeare, Marlowe and many other dramatists dealt with revenge as a popular subject.

Sir Arthur Connon Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame also dealt with principally the three themes of money, revenge and sex in his adventures.

A scrutiny of the revenge-based dramas and novels gives us an indication that the revenge also was for a sex-related murder.

Hence, we get only two basic causes for murder of individuals.

Money

The term money includes gold and real estate. The assassin wants to capture some money power either directly from the victim or through inheritance.

Murder and seize the money (or) seize the money and kill the victim to prevent him report to the police and testify in the witness box


*Husband and father-in-law/mother-in-law killing the daughter-in-law to get rid of her, so that the husband can remarry with greater dowry (quite common in India).

Sex
*Husband suspecting wife's fidelity.
*Alcoholic husbands asking wives for money and murdering them when refused.
*Wives murdering the alcoholic husbands, unable to bear torture by them.
*Wife and paramour killing the husband to get rid of him.
*Wife and husband killing the paramour when he becomes too troublesome.
*Husband and his concubine killing the wife, to get rid of her.

Family-lives get disrupted whenever one of the spouses is murdered leaving children to catastrophic nightmares. Motherless children or fatherless children will have emotional limps which will have serious bearing on the personality development of the child.

Cheating by one of the spouses seems to be main cause for domestic unrest apart from alcoholism. The system of marriage prevailing in societies all over the world do not allow 'permissiveness'. A little permissiveness and transparency goes a long way in building mutual confidence.

Cheating while continuing the family relationship with the spouse sounds somewhat venomous. This continuing in the family may be for protecting the child's future.

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