Due to the fear of losing a lover, people can do the unimaginable so as to feel safe in the relationship with nothing to worry about. It is this fear that has heightened the idea that a blood covenant can be made to secure the precious love shared between lovers.

In the past and in some popular religions across the world, blood covenants are very significant. As people coming from such religious backgrounds, it is quite easy to imagine that blood covenant is likely to create some sort of eternal bound between participants. Where any partner breaks the covenant, it is allged they will suffer heavy spiritual repercussions.