15 Things That Never Made Sense About Carrie Bradshaws Relationships – TheThings

Carrie Bradshaws relationships are the focus of Sex and the City. Although we fall in love with Miranda and Steve, root for Charlotte and Harry, and love watching Smith change Samantha for the better, most of the shows attention is centered on the relationships that Carrie has. But when it comes to her major relationships with Big and Aidan, and to a lesser extent Berger and Petrovsky, there are a few details that still have us scratching our heads after all this time.

Its no secret that Carrie Bradshaw is far from the perfect girlfriend. But the way she sometimes behaves when shes in a relationship is seriously confusing. And the men she dates arent any better! Check out these 15 things that never made sense about Carrie Bradshaws relationships.

This truly blows our minds about Sex and the City. Carrie is supposed to be a relationship expert, to the point where shes paid enough money to sustain a New York City lifestyle just to bless her readers with one columns worth of knowledge a week. Doesnt she know the golden rule of love? Never pursue someone whos emotionally unavailable.

Big is at fault a lot throughout his relationship with Carrie, but shes not perfect either. For example, early on she appears to have some serious boundary issues by stalking Big and his mother at church and showing up at his ex-wifes office. Despite the red flags, Big doesnt seem to mind.

When Carrie starts dating Aidan, she makes a big fuss about how she doesnt want to meethis parents because its too soon and the relationship is going too smoothly to feel real to her. But when she dates Vaughn, she meets his family instantly. Where is the logic there?

The affair between Carrie and Big doesnt make a lot of sense to us. Carrie claims to love Aidan and value his feelings and yet shes willing to betray him in the worst way. And of all the men she could cheat with, she chooses the one who scorned her by saying he wasnt interested in marriage and then marrying a 26-year-old he met in Paris.

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Carrie spends a lot of time feeling terrible during and after her affair with Big. But we couldnt help but wonder: is the only person she feels sorry for herself? Carrie cant stand the fact that Natasha hates her after the affair, nor can she take it when Aidan seems to still be angry with her. Those arent the actions of someone who truly feels guilty.

We commend Carrie for having the courage to admit that shes having an affair with Big. But, of all the possible times to fess up, she does it on her best friends wedding day. Was there really no other moment to do it? Everyone knows that a wedding day should be all about the bride.

In the fourth season, Carrie gets back together with Aidan but she notices a few changes in him. He no longer kisses the ground she walks on. When she gets a hint that he might be punishing her for cheating, she lashes out at him, demanding he forgive her. We're pretty sure that's not what you're supposed to do after cheating on someone!

One of the weirdest things about the relationship between Carrie and Aidan is that he doesnt even seem to notice that she takes him for granted. Both in the first and second chapters of their relationship, she continuously snaps at him and gets frustrated with him, often when hes just trying to be helpful. And he never seems to have a problem with it.

After Carrie cheats on Aidan with Big and then they get back together, she actually invites Big up to Aidans country housewhich she cant stand despite the fact that it means a lot to Aidanwithout even asking first! And once again, Aidan seems to just accept it, even if he is slightly disgruntled.

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For a relationships guru, Carrie certainly makes a lot of odd decisions. When she first discovers that Aidans going to propose, she actually throws up. When she tries on wedding dresses, her body breaks out in a rash. But for whatever reason, she still decides to go through with the wedding, until Aidan realizes hes never actually going to get her down the aisle.

Jack Berger is possibly one of Carries most irritating boyfriends. Another author, Berger cant stand the fact that Carrie is more successful than him. He is sulky and self-deprecating just because his book wasnt as successful as hers. The most baffling thing about him, though, is that he breaks up with her on a post-it despite being a grown man and not a teenage boy.

We know that Carries friends are important to her. But she puts pressure on her boyfriends to meet them before they are ready, which isnt that cool. She does it with Big and she does it with Aleksandr Petrovsky, who makes it clear to her that hes in the middle of important work and cant stop.

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Its tough when your friends dont approve of your boyfriend. That said, Carries out of line getting upset with her friends for not approving of Petrovsky. For someone who spends most of her life in cafes engaging in girl talk, its odd that she doesnt take their opinions, which turn out to be correct, more seriously.

Its not okay that Petrovsky slaps Carrie in Paris. But as far as the working all the time and leaving her alone in the hotel room goes, she should have expected it. She knows hes a workaholic and she knows how important his opening is to him. It seems like she really should have thought the decision to follow him to Paris through more carefully.

For the majority of the show, Big is emotionally unavailable, refuses to connect with Carrie on a level that she needs. But when she finally moves on with Petrovsky, he suddenly decides that shes the one. In real life, relationships dont tend to go that way. People dont have revelations that contradict everything theyve ever done at the last minute.

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