One of probably the most divisive romantic pairs in Grey’s Anatomy historical past lastly got here to an enormous resolution on Thursday’s (March 27) episode, “Ridin’ Solo”: Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) and Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) determined to present 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 believe I didn’t wish to admit it as a result of I’ve this concept of what our lives must be, and all the things that therapist stated appears reverse to that which is…
Teddy: Kind of terrifying.
Owen: Yeah.
Teddy: Maybe it doesn’t should be.
Owen: I’m keen to attempt one thing new if you’re. Sometimes 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 truly open this…
Owen: I don’t wish to know any particulars.
Teddy: Agreed, and we examine in commonly.
Owen: And we keep secure.
Teddy: And our marriage comes first. No critical relationships or emotions.
Owen: Of course.
That change is sufficient to gentle the fireplace 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? More importantly, is their relationship even value saving at this level?!
Owen and Teddy’s is well the messiest relationship this present has ever seen. After all, Teddy remains 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 purpose she joined the warfare effort to satisfy Owen within the first place, no much less. And Owen’s no saint, both. His lawless resolution to present death-with-dignity medication to folks left each of them on the run; plus, let’s not neglect that he did primarily hop out of Amelia’s (Caterina Scorsone) mattress earlier than flitting off to Germany to seduce Teddy.
They are the very definition of cold and hot 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 preserving 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. Could she even achieve this with out catching emotions, per the above-mentioned rule? Dun dun dun… In the meantime, tell us how you are feeling about this massive resolution by weighing in with the ballot beneath!
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