Loved to Death - 48 Hours - CBS News There are a number of issues here, and it's hypocritical to ignore them. Too much emphasis is placed on sports. Who knows if as much emphasis was placed on human living skills as on football if that boy would have matured to a place where he could handle his emotions. Commensurately, too much emphasis is placed on teen dating to the exclusion of everything else. Years ago youth had other allegiances: church, and similar communal ties. Today I think the main emphasis is placed on a single relationship and when that bursts there's nothing left. I don't think men should be isolated as the only abusers. We know for sure that abuse takes many forms and women do it as much as men. It's true, however, that male abuse tends to end in violence more. Still, both genders tend to become "dependent" on the less interested partner. I do believe firmly that no partner should EVER make contact with a former partner. That's the one absolute rule I would advise. Once a relationship is over it's over and you no longer bear any responsibility to that person. There are more than 300 million people in America and if your ex has a problem let the remainder of those 300 million people handle it. There are family members, neighbors, shrinks. teachers. social workers, friends of your ex; if they can't help him/her surely you can't either. There are too many of these stories. In one case, in England, a woman agreed to meet her ex outside and someone threw acid in her face in a set-up. The creep is now in prison but this lovely woman's life is forever ruined and she has undergone numerous skin grafts, she has nightmares in her sleep. Let this be an iron rule: NEVER MEET AN EX for whatever reason. To be fair to both genders, one man had his genitals glued with strong glue after he was drugged in a "last" romantic meal promised by his ex, or something like that. There are numerous cases involving both genders as victims. For the male the temptation is one final night of sex. For the female it's usually mothering, of something like that. I'm curious why we didn't hear from the boy's father. Perhaps a bit pedantic, I do think "one and only child" and "fellow classmate" were unnecessary in the narration. Isn't "only child" enough? Or "classmate" enough? People may disagree but I didn't like the detour into social education about breakup killings. This is 48 Hours, not a sociology program. Everything has its place. The breakup issue was implicit in the crime facts and there was no need to detour into that sociological episode. Was the kid interviewed by the police? I would have been more interested in that.