Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-79.118.186.70-20180415020517/@comment-33528609-20191205101152

209.181.155.40 wrote: ''""Still gonna stand by the idea that Nick only held onto Adalind because he was convinced that Juliette wants nothing to do with him and that Adalind gave him the family he dreamed of having with Juliette in the first place. Take out Kelly of the equation, and Nick and Adalind never would have even saw each other in that light.""'' The series seems to point in that direction, doesn't it? Even when he and Eve were in the other world, Nick never talked about how much better his life was was without Juliette. Instead, she was the one who told him that she didn't want to go back to her old life. It was only after that that he stated he wanted Adalind back. Firstly this show isn't a relationship drama-fest. It's barely skindeep, let alone nuanced. Short of hitting the viewer over the head with a sledgehammer, we are expected to take things at face value. At the start he loved Juliette, a lot, then things went pearshaped for four straight seasons and then she "died". He developed an attraction to Adalind (due to being in close proximity to her becaue of their son) he was probably fighting off (and losing) because in the end he wanted her regardless of their dodgy past. He was angry over his son being taken to a BC compaound but he seemed rather hurt Adalind left him (per talk with Trubel) and fought Renard to get her back, not just his son.

Nick carried a lot of guilt regarding Juliette's situation once he got over his mother's death. When she was in hospital he reflected on his Aunt Marie's words in the first episode to leave her because of the dangers he'd bring in her life. He was under the mistaken assumption she wanted to go back in time to before he became a grimm, which was when they were their most happiest. She corrected him. He'd long found his purpose AND the family life he wanted and now she'd found her purpose as well. She knew before he acknowledged it himself that he loved Adalind, how and why is besides the point. She was essentially absolving him of whatever remained of his regret. You see with his reaction after she lost abilities, he/the group is  genuinely surprised she missed her abilities, again making an assumption because that would be so much easier on their conscience she be "normal Juliette" again.

It honestly would be unfeeling of him to flaunt his new life in the very face of the woman whose life he's basically destroyed by not listening to his aunt. Nick is not callous nor duplicitous in his wants and needs. He's never said one thing when he wanted something else except under the influence of the Muse.