What did I learn from Chris Watts case? If you are a woman or rather a wife, don’t be a control freak, fall back a little bit maybe alot. If you start sensing distance and hostility or coldness from your partner, don’t take on the role of super woman, getting pregnant, buying books on marriage improvement or insist on counseling. Fall back and focus on yourself, your life, your kids and whatever else fulfills you and makes you happy. Don’t live beyond your means to impress people and separate your home or family life from your social media life. Don’t treat your husband like one of your children, don’t micromanage and smother him, he’s an adult and he was doing just fine before you came along. If worst comes to worst and the tension is unbearable, move out with your kids, it might save your lives. I wish Shannon had stayed in North Carolina longer when she noticed all is not well in her marriage especially when Chris told her, he no longer wanted the baby she was carrying, that is a huge red flag when your husband hints that he wants you to get an abortion, maybe things would have been different if Shannon just put some distance between Chris Watts and the rest of the family. We will never know. It was destiny.
That said, I don’t blame Shannon for what happened, nobody deserves to die because a relationship or marriage is not working bcz the husband is in love with another woman. Especially a pregnant woman and her toddlers.