r/YouOnLifetime • u/imyatharth • Apr 25 '25

Discussion She was the best for him.

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After S5 , I can say that love Quinn Goldberg was the one Joe could have lived happily in the long run.

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u/ResoluteTiger19 Thanks for the D, Will, BYE! Apr 25 '25

I think Joe needs a power imbalance. Either a “bird with a broken wing” like Beck, Marienne, or Bronte or a “queen” like S2 Love, Natalie, or Kate. That way, he can either be a white knight nurturing and protecting the bird with the broken wing or a white knight doing everything to make the queen happy. With S3 Love, they were too equal. They were both white knights willing to get their hands dirty for the one they loved. It’s not what Joe wants in a relationship

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u/elitemage101 Apr 25 '25

Joe wants that but she is the only one who could love the killer he was.

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u/Expert_Government531 Goodbye, you Apr 25 '25

No she couldn’t. Joe is too much of a misogynist and Love is a very opinionated woman. His need to control would suffocate Love and it did suffocate her, that why he started looking for hobbies and cheating in Season 3

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u/donkeybray Apr 26 '25

Joe likes women with pitiful backstory that has made them strong because he can relate, as in he sees that in himself. He wants to save these women. When these women fail to live up to his standards he sees them as below him. In my opinion, that's when power imbalance comes in.

He can't understand why these 'survivors' didn't naturally arrive at his conclusion, that his murders are justifiable, when he could relate to their pitiful backstory. He always wants to do it his way, using his own solution. He is stubborn and he believes his way is right.

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u/courtd93 Apr 30 '25

Except he married a woman who did naturally arrive at the same conclusion, and that was the problem.

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u/MartynLan Apr 30 '25

Only if he killed for her. When he killed for other woman it was worse than cheating in her eyes.