Why I’m Worried About Jo & Link’s Future After Their Engagement – This One Terrifying Grey’s Anatomy Trend Could Ruin It All!

Jo and Link’s engagement follows their relationship being steady since they finally got together in Grey’s Anatomy season 19’s finale, but their surprise engagement in season 21, episode 10 makes me wary of their future given one horrible Grey’s Anatomy trend. Jo and Link’s bond was never in doubt in Grey’s Anatomy, and their friendship has been one of the best in the medical drama, with Link supporting Jo after she learned the truth about her biological family and Jo doing the same as Amelia kept on rejecting Link’s marriage proposals. Surprisingly, turning their relationship romantic didn’t affect them negatively.

The news of Jo’s pregnancy in Grey’s Anatomy season 20’s finale inevitably strained the relationship, but it was nothing Jo and Link couldn’t manage. Despite continuing to butt heads, the moment Jo was in danger after the convenience store robbery, Link didn’t hesitate to support her, even wrapping his head around Jo’s choice of procedure to keep the twins safe, as he would have preferred to put Jo first. While happening unexpectedly, Link asking Jo to marry him wasn’t surprising, but their union makes me fear for them due to a trend that hit even the best Grey’s Anatomy couples.

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Learning they were expecting twins elicited very different reactions in Jo and Link, with the latter thinking positively as the former only focused on how that completely turned her already busy life upside down. Grey’s Anatomy season 21’s spring premiere unexpectedly led Jo and Link to reconnect thanks to Bailey’s work with both – supporting Jo unconditionally as she worried for her twins while also telling Link where he was going wrong with his weighing in at that time. However, Link’s case of the newly-divorcée patient who dove off a bridge to recover her engagement ring oddly prompted him to propose.

While celebrating a divorce like the Grey’s Anatomy season 21 patient was doing might sound counterintuitive as Link’s inspiration, it made perfect sense, as the case brought back memories of Link and Amelia’s breakup. Jo’s support as Link recovered from it opened his eyes on the good of his now-ended relationship not disappearing just because they had broken up, with his advice to his patient being lauded by many, including Amelia. Link reflecting on how that advice came from Jo, his best friend, prompted his proposal, feeling their being best friends first offset the possibility of their marriage ending badly.

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Jo and Link’s bond was already put to the test when they tried preserving their friendship as Jo first started harboring feelings for him while Link focused on losing Amelia, only for Link to start having feelings for Jo as she was trying to move on. However, compared to the great number of failed Grey’s Anatomy marriages, Jo and Link didn’t have it too hard on their journey to getting engaged. Their happiness in the relationship and willingness to put the work in show Jo and Link are in a good place together, but that might end with their marriage.

All Major Grey’s Anatomy Couples Who Got Married And Divorced Onscreen
George	Callie
Derek	Addison
Alex	Izzie
Cristina	Owen
Callie	Arizona
Amelia	Owen
Jackson	April
Jo	Alex
Maggie	Winston

Even without thinking about the Grey’s Anatomy relationships that went through so much without the couple even marrying like Cristina and Burke, plenty of others faced major problems as they dated, only for their problems to become even bigger hardships after they married. This was the case for earlier couples like Alex and Izzie or Meredith and Derek, but also recent ones like Maggie and Winston. Most marriages that were lucky not to end in divorce only did because Grey’s Anatomy killed half of the couple, like in Meredith and Derek’s case, with only three exceptions in the medical drama.

Indeed, even the couples that eventually reunited like Izzie and Alex or Jackson and April had to go through a divorce. Except for two central Grey’s Anatomy couples who married and stayed so, one that is on the precipice of a breakup but is still holding on, and those where one half of the couple tragically died, all marriages in the medical drama inevitably ended, with some doing so exceptionally horribly. This Grey’s Anatomy trend doesn’t bode well for Jo and Link’s upcoming nuptials, although they may beat the odds in two ways.

How Jo & Link’s Relationship Could Survive Grey’s Anatomy Marriage Curse

Jo & Link’s Upcoming Marriage Could Survive In 2 Ways

Jo and Link’s relationship could nevertheless luck out even with Grey’s Anatomy letting most marriages end in divorce. Indeed, with both of them part of the medical drama, the chances of a horrible breakup get higher after a marriage. However, were one of them to move away from Seattle and the other followed, Jo and Link could stay together or get back together offscreen, as popular Grey’s Anatomy couples like Jackson and April or Izzie and Alex did, respectively in seasons 18 and 16.

Another option for Jo and Link’s relationship to survive would be to constantly be challenged, like the three other couples who are still married on Grey’s Anatomy are. While Ben and Bailey are by far the healthiest and more open among all Grey’s Anatomy couples, their marriage still went through various ups and downs, just like Teddy and Owen’s and Catherine and Richard’s. Drama is always lurking behind the corner for the three marriages still standing, making this type of threat the one that could keep Jo and Link on their toes and together in Grey’s Anatomy.