In State v. Whitaker, 100 N.C. App. 578, 397 S.E.2d 372 (1990), testimony of defendant's wife and evidence regarding their relationship supported the trial court's finding as an aggravating factor that defendant committed assault with a deadly weapon with premeditation and deliberation. The evidence showed that there was ill will between the parties which culminated in violence on at least two occasions prior to the offense, that defendant showed his wife the type of knife used in the assault and told her drug dealers were after him and were going to get her to get at him, and that defendant approached his wife hours before the assault and told her she was dead, or was going to die. Id. at 583, 397 S.E.2d at 375.