Lamb to the Slaughter

My thoughts on this story is that Mary Maloney loved and cared for her husband very much, her husband Patrick didn't exactly feel the same way, Her husband didn't treat her very well and wanted to leave her. I don't think Mary intented to kill her husband but she did, even though her husband treated her very badly you shouldn't kill someone over it. At this point I don't think Mary regrets killing Patrick, years down the road I think she most defiantly will, just because of how much love she had for him. I think this story is very similar to what happens in real life to married women, who have their husbands abusing them, I personally think the women she just get out of the toxic relationship, easier said than done or in Marys case it would have been better if she just talked to a police officer about what was going on at home, considering her husband Patrick was a police officer.