One of the vital divisive romantic pairs in Gray’s Anatomy historical past lastly got here to an enormous determination on Thursday’s (March 27) episode, “Ridin’ Solo”: Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) and Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) determined to provide the open marriage idea a whirl in hopes of saving their always-rocky relationship.
The dialog between them went like so:
Owen: “I don’t need us to really feel caught. And I feel I didn’t need to admit it as a result of I’ve this concept of what our lives must be, and every thing that therapist mentioned appears reverse to that which is…
Teddy: Type of terrifying.
Owen: Yeah.
Teddy: Possibly it doesn’t should be.
Owen: I’m keen to strive one thing new if you’re. Typically it simply takes me a minute to get there, and it’s a little bizarre picturing you flirting with another person.
Teddy: I’m a horrible flirt. [Laughs.] Okay. If we really open this…
Owen: I don’t need to know any particulars.
Teddy: Agreed, and we examine in commonly.
Owen: And we keep secure.
Teddy: And our marriage comes first. No severe relationships or emotions.
Owen: In fact.
That change is sufficient to mild the hearth between them and get them again within the sack collectively once more after the entire Cass and Nora debacles, however is it sufficient to truly save their relationship in the long term? Extra importantly, is their relationship even value saving at this level?!
Owen and Teddy’s is definitely the messiest relationship this present has ever seen. In any case, Teddy continues to be the one who left a voicemail of herself sleeping with Tom Koracick (Greg Germann) on her marriage ceremony night time to Owen, which he performed on speakerphone for your complete OR to listen to. She’s additionally the one who named their daughter after the lady who she claimed was her greatest good friend however was secretly the love of her life — whose reminiscence was the entire motive she joined the struggle effort to fulfill Owen within the first place, no much less. And Owen’s no saint, both. His lawless determination to provide death-with-dignity medicine to folks left each of them on the run; plus, let’s not neglect that he did basically hop out of Amelia’s (Caterina Scorsone) mattress earlier than flitting off to Germany to seduce Teddy.
They’re the very definition of cold and warm with each other, and whereas they haven’t precisely had probably the most secure relationships with different folks, they appear to work greatest when there’s one thing maintaining them aside. The craving is the enjoyable half for each of them, it appears.
So will opening up their marriage lastly be the ticket to creating Owen and Teddy work? Or are they manner too far gone at this level? We’ll have to attend and see when subsequent week brings Teddy head to head with Cass once more at a medical convention — this time, with permission to discover with different companions, it appears. Might she even achieve this with out catching emotions, per the above-mentioned rule? Dun dun dun… Within the meantime, tell us how you are feeling about this massive determination by weighing in with the ballot beneath!
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