Rip and Beth’s romance is an epic tale.

Yellowstone has delivered a lot of epic storytelling so far, but when it comes to the western series’ love stories and romances, there isn’t one more worthy of adoration than Rip and Beth’s. Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser’s characters share a complex past and nuanced present, and it’s created a gorgeous tapestry of a romance.

Beth And Rip’s First Kiss

Long before Rip and Beth got together as adults, they fell for each other when they were teenagers. That history is slowly revealed throughout the show’s five seasons, with Season 2 delivering the pair’s first kiss. At the time, neither characters had locked lips with anyone else before, and they shared a tender initial smooch.

Beth And Rip Had Sex As Teens, And Jamie Took Her To Get An Abortion

At the heart of Jamie and Beth’s feud is Jamie’s irreversible decision that made it so his sister couldn’t have kids.

After having sex with Rip when they were teens, Beth got pregnant and wanted to get an abortion. Kelly Reilly’s character then went to her brother to ask for help, and Jamie consented to a surgery that would make her infertile, but didn’t lay any of this out to his sibling this until after the procedure was over, which is why Beth hates Jamie so much.

In terms of Rip and Beth’s relationship and this development, it’s important to note that Cole Hauser’s character still does not know why his partner can’t have kids, and that he actually played a part in that situation. That might change when the final episodes of Yellowstone come out.

Rip Gets The Brand Because He Killed Rowdy Over Rude Comments About Beth

For a long time, we knew Rip wore the Y, but we didn’t find out why he was branded until a Season 5 flashback. When he was a teen, Hauser’s character got into a tiff with another ranch hand, Rowdy, because he spoke ill of Beth. This led to the death of Rowdy, and Rip ended up telling John the truth about why all this went down. Then, to fix the problem, the Dutton patriarch branded his most trusted hand, committing him to the ranch forever.

After Turning Down Rip’s Music Festival Idea, Beth Goes On A ‘Morbid’ First Date With Him

In Season 1, Episode 1, after an intimate moment, Rip asked Beth if she wanted to go to a music festival. She immediately turned that down. However, in Episode 2  they do have that date, and it’s “morbid” as Beth says, because they were sitting in Rip’s truck, drinking and watching wolves eat a dead animal.