During the Scott Peterson case a lot of Scott's supporters argued that he had no intention of spending the rest of his life with Amber, that he would never leave Laci for Amber. But in my view that wasn't the point. Scott wanted to be with Amber to have a life that did not so closely resemble his own, which he disliked and resented. She was an alternative for the time being, not a goal. But being with her was incompatible with married family life, so he made a choice which way he was going to go.