DENVER -- Christopher Watts, who is charged with killing his family and dumping their bodies at an oil worksite, taped a video presentation six years ago about saving or abandoning relationships. A YouTube video posted in April 2012 shows Watts giving a PowerPoint presentation that he titled, "Communication Speech, Relationship Deterioration and Repair." 
 
 He opened the presentation by saying it is for a course he was taking. He then speaks of infidelity — possibly with someone at work — as a reason that relationships fail. 
 
 Police in suburban Denver say Watts was having an affair with a co-worker before he was arrested last week in the slayings of his wife, Shanann Watts, and their two young daughters, Bella, 3, and Celeste, 4. He has not entered a plea to murder and other felony charges. 
 
 According to court documents, Watts told police in Frederick, a Colorado community in the oil and gas fields north of Denver, that he told his wife on August 13 that he wanted to separate. A police investigation determined that Watts "was actively involved in an affair with a co-worker," the documents state. 
 
 Watts worked at Anadarko Petroleum and was fired on August 15, the day he was arrested. He told investigators that he killed his wife but claimed that she had strangled their two daughters after he told her he wanted to separate. 
 
 In the 2012 video posted online about six months before the couple wed, Watts said he was in suburban Broomfield, where the Watts family once lived. 
 
 "Sometimes you find your partner no longer attractive physically or in their personality," he said in the presentation. "When you are in a relationship you have to show desire, lust toward your partner. Sometimes when you get married that the lust and the desire kind of fall by the wayside a little bit." 
 
 At another point, Watts said: "Even at the job, you might meet a new person and (it) could strengthen into something else and could weaken the bond you have with the partner you have." 
 
 "And you feel that you might be better with someone else that you've met," he declared. "You think that you can no longer do — that your partner is someone that you can't be with." 
 
 Krista Henery, a spokeswoman for the Weld County district attorney's office, declined comment about the video Wednesday. Watts' public defender, James Merson, did not immediately return a phone message. 
 
 Watts in the video cites various experts in recommending steps to strengthen and salvage relationships, including listening attentively, thinking before speaking, and openly expressing support and affection. 
 
 "Sometimes when you have children and your relationship starts to deteriorate a child could help repair it," he said. 
 
 He also listed three questions to ask when a relationship is in jeopardy: 
 
 "Do I have the desire to keep this relationship going? Do I have a moral obligation to stay in this relationship? Or is it a necessity for me to stay in this relationship?" 
 
 As Watts ended the presentation, he received a round of applause from two women and two men seated on a sofa across the room. One of the women said, "Good job." 
 
 Shanann Watts is not seen in the video. Under a last name she had from an earlier marriage, Shanann King posted a comment to the video that said: "Great job Christopher! Good information!" 
 
 North Carolina court records show she divorced around 2009, several years before she and Christopher Watts married. 
 
 Watts was charged this week with first-degree murder and other felony counts. Shanann's body was discovered in a shallow grave about 40 miles from the family's Frederick home, and the two girls' bodies were recovered from nearby oil tanks, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. 
 
 On Tuesday, Christopher Watts appeared in court for an arraignment. Shanann Watts' father, Frank Rzucek Sr., cried and shook visibly as District Judge Marcelo Kopcow read the formal charges. 
 
 Shanann's brother, Frank Rzucek Jr., rubbed his father's shoulders and glared unflinchingly at his brother-in-law. A bailiff stood between them. 
 
 Watts, handcuffed and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, didn't show emotion. He said "Yes, sir," when the judge asked if he understood the murder and other felony charges against him and the penalties they carry, including the death penalty. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek death. 
 
 Watts waived his right to have a preliminary hearing within 35 days. A judge set a status hearing for November 19. ||||| Fayetteville family bonded with Colorado mom, daughters days before deaths Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Bella Watts in Myrtle Beach, just days before she was murdered in Colorado (Photo: Michele Greer) [ + - ] Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Bella Watts in Myrtle Beach, just days before she was murdered in Colorado (Photo: Michele Greer) [ + - ] Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Bella Watts in Myrtle Beach, just days before she was murdered in Colorado (Photo: Michele Greer) [ + - ] Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Watts family in the background of a photo. (Courtesy of Michele Greer) [ + - ] Video 
 
 FAYETTEVILLE. N.C. (WNCN) - A Fayetteville mom says photos taken on a family vacation are chilling after discovering Shanann Watts and her daughters are in the background. 
 
 Watts, 3-year-old Celeste, and 4-year-old Bella were murdered in Colorado last week. Shanann Watts' husband, Chris Watts, has been charged in their deaths. 
 
 "Chills. Heartache," Michele Greer said. 
 
 Greer, her husband, and three young boys were on vacation in Myrtle Beach earlier this month. Greer said that, while waiting in line for a bungee trampoline, she struck up a conversation with the family in front of them. 
 
 "We just started talking about our kids," said Greer. 
 
 The other family was Watts, her daughters, and her husband. 
 
 Greer said she and Shanann Watts talked for about 10 minutes, making the connection that they both had ties to North Carolina. Shanann Watts was from Aberdeen and her husband is from Spring Lake. 
 
 "Small world. That’s exactly what I was thought," Greer said. 
 
 While standing in line, Greer said Watts excitedly shared the news she was expecting, and hoping for a baby boy. 
 
 "She said, ‘This pregnancy is just like my first two pregnancies. It’s probably another girl.’ I said ‘No, maybe not,'" Greer said. 
 
 Soon, it was time for Greer's boys and Watts' girls to jump on the trampolines, so the moms parted ways. 
 
 "The last thing I told her was, 'Good luck to you.' That was it," Greer said. 
 
 Eleven days later, back at home in Fayetteville, Greer said she saw on the news that the happy mom, and her adorable girls from the beach were dead, and Chris Watts was the prime suspect. 
 
 "As soon as my husband got home I said, 'I think this is the couple we met at Myrtle Beach.' He said, 'No, I’m 100 percent positive this is the family,'" Greer said. 
 
 She grabbed her phone, scrolled through it and her heart dropped. In the background of photos of her own children was Watts taking photos of her girls. 
 
 "The way they just smiled at her. The way she was filming them. She was smiling at them. She loved those girls, and those girls loved her," Greer said. 
 
 Greer said Chris Watts didn't speak to her family at all that day. She doesn't believe his claim. According to Colorado court documents, Shanann Watts killed Bella and Celeste. 
 
 Chris Watts, 33, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of murdering a child under 12, one count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy, and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body, according to CBS News. 
 
 "I’m sickened that a parent, a father, could do that to his children, and to his wife," Greer said. 
 
 Greer added that she is praying for Watts' entire family. She said that looking back at the photos is a stark reminder. 
 
 "Live your life to the fullest. Just love your kids. Hug them. Tell them you love them," Greer said. ||||| The interactive transcript could not be loaded. 
 
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– A Colorado man charged with killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters in the midst of an affair with a co-worker once gave a presentation on relationships and infidelity, specifically mentioning the idea of infidelity with a person at work. "Sometimes you find your partner no longer attractive physically or in their personality," Christopher Watts says in a 9-minute YouTube video posted in April 2012, six months before his marriage to Shanann Watts. "Even at the job, you might meet a new person and [the new relationship] could strengthen into something else," he continues, delivering a presentation titled "Communication Speech, Relationship Deterioration and Repair," which he says is for a course he was taking. At one point, Watts notes children "could help repair" a deteriorating relationship, as could listening and showing affection. "Great job Christopher! Good information!" Watts' future wife commented on the video, viewed more than 100,000 times, per CBS News. Along with recent vacation photos, other videos of the couple are racking up online views. "He's the best thing that has ever happened to me," Shanann says of her husband in one, per the Coloradan. Another viewed nearly 12 million times shows Shanann surprising Watts with news of her third pregnancy. "That's awesome," Watts says before kissing his wife. Authorities allege he killed her and daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, weeks later. Watts has a different version of events, claiming he killed his wife only after she strangled their daughters following a conversation about a possible separation, according to police. He's next due in court in November.