Why do women date these types of men ?

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I’m not sure if this is a feminist discussion as such but

I was reading about Jon Venables and how he currently had a girlfriend/fiancé who knew his past.

I guess this does apply mainly to women since men are usually the ones committing acts of violence and sexual violence.

What draws people/women to have relationships with men like this ? Child murders and rapists ?

Are these women usually victims in some way and these men prey on them ? Or is there more to it ?

There’s also those women that “marry” men in prison and promise to wait years for them. Why do they do it ?

They have low self esteem and think they can save and fix the man. Also think the man is misunderstood?

For some it is the redemption arc, and the mandate to support it that religions teach, that draws some women in over and over. The long career of Hugo Schwyzer as a males feminist is an example of the cycle of the charming predator.
Denial is a dangerous drug. Particularly dangerous for women.

Neediness.

I don’t see how anyone like Venables could find redemption. Not when he’s still commuting offences.

The redemption arc is the tool predators use. Sorry I was not clear.

I'm not sure which one Venables is, is he the one still re-offending? I couldn't personally be with anyone like that but I guess children do grow up and change a lot, so there is the chance they can become a well balanced adult who has empathy aNd an understanding of right from wrong. But as for women who form relationships with men who have offended as adults, as others have said it's either low self esteem or they just genuinely don't give a shit. I guess anyone who could accept a monster would have to be lacking in many ways, look at the lengths Myra Hindley went to with Ian Brady, yet she maintained she felt empathy for the children.. bollocks!

Mental illness. No sane person would find that attractive s

Going off what my ex’s girlfriend said to me it’s because everyone up to the point of the woman meeting them just didn’t understand the man or weren’t good enough for them or circumstances/life were against them.
He started small with me, verbal, the odd push or smack, put me down a lot and forced himself on me before I saw sense and got out.
His subsequent girlfriend just believed what he told her, that I was frigid, didn’t get him, all the usual crap until he knocked the shit out of her. From what I heard the pattern continued for a good few years.
He’s been in prison for the last 4 years for murdering his wife. Some of his friends still support him and wonder what happened to make him ‘snap’.