I’ve always wondered what are the psychological conditions and cognitive processes behind this behavior from women.
their love can transform the convict: from cunning and cruel, to caring, concerned, and compassionate.
there’s a wounded child nested somewhere inside the killer that can be healed through a devoted nurturance that only they can provide.
Consciously, most women would like their men to be kind, empathic, understanding, and respectful. But there’s something in their native wiring that makes a great many of them susceptible to “bad boys.” Possibly because, as the authors quote Angela Knight as reflecting (in a sentiment that echoes the conclusions of most evolutionary psychologists): “[Their] inner cavewoman knows Doormat Man would become Sabertooth Tiger Lunch in short order” (p .97).
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201204/why-do-women-fall-serial-killers
These women who fall for killers think they are special women who can ‘change the behavior and bring out the inner kindness’ of the man-
These women are simpleminded and clueless
Spiritual, not just psychological. Humanity is fallen and depraved.
Males are prone to be bad boys. Females are prone to want bad boys.
In youth ministry, I saw tamer versions of this play out time after time, year after year.
Females consider dangerous men sexually virile. They instinctively want their love to somehow transform and redeem him.
A truly decent man is perceived as sexually boring and no challenge to the majority of women.
I have seen too many “Christian” bad boys on their third marriage to their third “Christian” wife.