MAN: “Honey? Want to go to the animal shelter and find a dog?”
WOMAN: “No, dear. I’d rather bring home an ex-con.”
MAN: “Oh sure, why not.”
There was a Delphi forum dedicated to spuses/girlfriends of convicts. These were cons who were already in prison when the women “fell” for them.
The women get to play the martyr because their loved one is in prison. They also get a mate who they do not have to deal with except by mail so they have the perfect fantasy husband. The only con is that the con might get out.
The convicts get money and they can pretend they have a place to go if they get out.
That was a case on Forensic Files. A woman in the Tulsa area began advertising for men after she and her husband divorced. They still lived under the same roof. The guy, an ex-con, killed her ex-husband, killed her and killed the guy who stopped to report a fire (the killer set the fire).
Scary stuff.