What was TRAVIS' problem?

Travis wasn't a saint. I'm not defending jodi, but I think they both lied and manipulated each other. Jodi was the first one to reach her breaking point.

I just watched this and he did tell her someday he wanted to marry a Mormon. After she converted her religion he then said it was too soon to talk marriage. He also told her they were just having fun and that he never loved her.

I don't think he could truly deal with a serious relationship... he was conflicted. He had a lot of issues that stemmed from his childhood- he had a horrific childhood of abuse and abandonment and while he overcame so much and made a nice life for himself. deep down I don't think he knew how to handle completely giving himself. He had a lot of gilfriends and for the most part each relationship was pretty long term. He wanted to settle down with a nice Mormon wife and have a family but it was a struggle..

When this movie first came out, I posted that Travis brought some of this upon himself. Not the murder! Knowing that Jodi wanted more yet he wasn't honest with her was unfair. I got chewed out about how I'm blaming the victim, how awful I was.

Travis knew what Jodi wanted....a relationship. Everyone, a year ago, posted that he was struggling with his faith. Travis knew he was sinning against the Mormon faith. He knew she was crazy about him and wanted marriage. When she started acting irrational, Travis knew it could get harry. I'm sure he didn't think she would murder him but he played with fire.

Travis did not deserve to be murdered. No one does! I'm sure if he had the opportunity to do things different, he would (not being funny at all). I can't look at Travis and say he was 100% innocent.

his comforter had pink flowers.

let me say that again... pink flowers.

pink
flowers.



he's gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH THANK YOU GOD! THANK YOU SO BLOODY MUCH!!! Basil Fawlty

You'd be closer to the truth if you assumed this movie is 30% accurate. Even that's too much, actually. The scenes with Jodi and Travis alone are pretty much completely made up. How can they be accurate? If only Jodi and Travis were there, and Travis is dead and Jodi is a well recorded liar, who would they have interviewed to know what was said in these moments? Even the parts that were based on actual facts, the part were Travis is talking outside with his friends--that was actually in a bedroom and the woman of the married couple suddenly felt uncomfortable and realized Jodi was eavesdropping from behind the door. And the part where she sleeps with another man and sends him the pics, that was probably the movies juiced up drama version of her commenting on his myspace pic that he was fat, something that started an argument between the two. So pretty much none of it was accurate; treat the movie and the real people as two different entities.

Your next question is hard to answer as it's based on opinion, but I very much believe that it's too early to talk about marriage after just 5 months. Studies have proven that it takes 2 years to fully know your partner. I worked selling jewelry for a while, and whenever a couple came in for an engagement or anniversary ring (the one that's put on at the wedding, not to be mistaken for a gift given for one's anniversary) I always asked how long they had been together. They thought I was just making conversation, but really, if it was under 2 years I was asking so I could split the sale with someone, so when they returned it after the engagement got called off for whatever reason, I only took half a hit (it hurt our sales when we got returns). And trust me when I say that 80% of the time i was right to do so. So yes, 5 months is way too early to start talking about marriage, in my opinion. Especially when it's someone you didn't start dating after years of actually knowing the person, like Travis and Jodi.

That being said, when he calls her his "friend," this was after she'd already proven to be a psychopath. She alienated him from his friends, acted insanely jealous, texted people from his phone, and broke into his house in the middle of the night by this point. Would you want an actual relationship with someone like that? I honestly think that had she just acted normally and not pushed him, eventually, at his own pace, he would have taken things to the next level. But you don't do that with someone who's already acting like a lunatic.