Going to rant about Nick from the recent love is blind season for a sec. I say this with affection as a queer person, that is most likely a closeted queer man looking for a beard to please his conservative, christian family. It seemed like he was saying whatever he could to these women to get one of them to fall in love and agree to marry him. he says “people call me a player” because that is the straight narrative he has created for himself, that he believes in order to fit in with a heteronormative society. When he asks Annie about “what if our child was LGBT+” I think that was a conscious decision in order to gage her reaction to see if it aligned with the goal he’s trying to achieve (ie get a Christian wife) with this process. When she affirmed a more negative view of queerness he accepted it, sadly, as aligned with the internalized homophobia he feels toward himself. To me it also seems he is strategically planning a relationship with physical distance, i.e. agreeing to commute between Denver and the mountains, because that is the only way a straight relationship is palatable to him. So when Annie is protesting that he doesn’t love her enough, I do see how it’s an insecurity on her part but also based in some truth in that I don’t think he really loves her. They both picked a partner to suit a superficial need of being married as a form of validation, so in that (toxic) way they’re kind of made for each other. I’m glad Nick finally had the courage to call it off and not drag it out further before more damage could be done to either person.
