(12-27-2017, 08:10 PM)irukandji Wrote: In all fairness to Juliette, she didn't hook up with Nick the Grimm. She hooked up with Nick the cop. She didn't have a choice when Nick began to experience the physical signs that led him to be a grimm. Could Nick have ignored the symptoms and remained a detective once he knew all there was to being a grimm? We'll never know because he never gave Juliette a choice. When Marie warned him about staying with Juliette, even then, he didn't reveal anything to her.
I understand Juliette wanting the normal life. She spoke to Nick about it, but I never got the impression she was giving him a choice. It sounded to me like Nick himself was setting up the choices, with normalcy on one end and the grimm life on the other.
Juliette still made a choice. She knew he was lying about something and that's a big red flag but whatever. She didn't sign up for Nick the Grimm in S1 but she did by the end of S2 so nobody forced her against her will to stay with a grimm, knowing what she knew about the dangers etc. Nick was already a cop when they met he was a protector by nature, his grimm nature took that to another level, if she truly knew Nick, she'd know he couldn't live a normal life after becoming a grimm and then losing it the way he did. It wasn't a choice he made and he felt like a part of him was missing just like Adalind did immediately after Nick killed her hexenbiest but not so severely.
Juliette went behind his back to Monroe and Rosalee asking them not to find a cure for Nick's grimmlessness or something to that effect, that sounds like a choice to me and one that at the time she made without Nick's knowledge. At the least she's as guilty of the same thing as Nick. He wanted his grimm back and she didn't and neither was honest with the other. The Wesenrein going after Monroe made the choice forced their hand as Juliette decided of her own free will to give Nick what he wanted. Being a main ingredient isn't being forced to participate. Juliette had a choice and she made it. Unfortunately the consequences of remaining with Nick from the first episode until S4 kept getting steeper and steeper but let's not kid ourselves about the part she chose to play. She is a grown woman and could have left Nick from day one of the show, but she didn't.
(12-27-2017, 08:10 PM)irukandji Wrote: You also mentioned that no marriage can be built on lies and secrets and survive. I agree with this. Nick's grimm lifestyle is one of secrets and I think this is a major reason why Nick chose not to marry.This was Juliette in the first episode, no amount of twisting the show changes the fact that Juliette refused Nick over his secrecy and lies. He bought the ring before he became a Grimm or knew about his heritage and what that meant for his life and those he loved and at that time, he hadn't lied to Juliette. That came after the Grimm kicked in.
(12-27-2017, 08:10 PM)irukandji Wrote: Nick's grimm lifestyle, to put it mildly, is bizarre. He's had all sorts of weird encounters with wesen and has been personally affected by some of them. Take the muse, for instance. Nick was lovesick as the result of her spell. He didn't confide in anyone about the effects, became violent, and was heading down a path of destruction. Fortunately, Renard stepped in and forced the muse out of town. Juliette was left to clean up the mess, which she did gladly, as Nick stood by her while she was in coma.Your what if scenario with the muse returning is just that, it's not reality or fact. Who cares if Renard isn't there to drive out the muse, Nick still has friends who have looked after him for years and will continue to do so regardless of the kinds of threats, minor or major Nick will face everyday. He's not some helpless whelp desperate for Renard's protection.
It's conceivable that Nick could very easily encounter another muse. There will be no Renard to force her out of town or an understanding Juliette to pick up the pieces, should there be a rescue for Nick. To add an additional burden, Adalind has never had to deal with the peculiar physical effects that Nick has personally experienced.
At least as Nick's domestic partner, Adalind has the freedom to leave if it gets too much for her. As a wife, she doesn't have that freedom.
It's not up to Juliette to clean up after Nick either, again his friends have done a bang up job of that and now Adalind has more than accepted her role in his life and has helped him anyway she could. She's a hexenbiest born and raised with knowledge about the wesen world not a novice like Juliette at the time. She was there for him when he needed a trust me knot and did her part getting the ingredients for the twinning spell in 6x03. She knew how to deal with the wesen that was sacrificing people and knew about the cupido and breaking his spell in the last season, she didn't stop him because they were all affected except for a pregnant Rosalee. She and Rosalee were the ones to come up with the Force du Sang against Zerstörer (it was Nick's grimm blood that actually defeated Z). The point is that Nick isn't shorting for allies just because Renard and Juliette aren't so relevant in his life as they were for not more than four out of six seasons between S1 to half of S5 .
As wife why would she leave him when she loves him and he loves her?