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These recommendations are from the viewpoint of events taking place in a controlling and coercive relationship, but the statistics do not suggest that this is always the case. There will be cases where a man kills his partner by suffocation—smothering her with a pillow or whatever—where the relationship has not been coercive at all but, rather, where the man may be reacting to being told that the woman is going to break off the relationship for reasons that, perhaps understandably, cause him to lose his self-control. In those circumstances, why is it so much more wicked that, having lost control, he takes a pillow and smothers his partner?