I Feel Like Natalia Would Fall Into A Sort Of Buck Has To Have Gotten Hurt First Before Getting Attention.

I feel like Natalia would fall into a sort of Buck has to have gotten hurt first before getting attention.

Has anyone ever talked about Buck and his mommy issues when it comes to relationships?

So, there’s this thing about you tend to date/marry people who either look like you or hold similar traits to your family members. It’s some evolutionary stuff that is something idk, but it’s a thing like a lot of the time.

Margaret was absent, she was there physically, but emotionally and mentally closed off to Buck unless he was hurt. He worked to earn her affection. He worked to earn her approval.

Abby— Buck worked to make her like him. She was older (not that she was mom age, but this is a boy who doesn’t really know healthy relationships with people older than him). She cancelled on him a lot, making her kinda absent. She then literally abandoned him.

Ali— Didn’t like seeing him get hurt, to the point where she also left him. With her brown hair she looks similar to JLH (random due to casting, but still). Very touchy feely in the way Margaret (in a motherly way) wasn’t. Coerced Buck into choices like a mother would. There’s not much about Ali, she wasn’t around for long.

Taylor— Absent a lot both physically and emotionally. Keeping secrets, like Buck could probably feel his family was even if he couldn’t tie it to Daniel at the time. Open with her wants. Driven and loud, against Margaret’s quiet and contained. Kissed Buck after he was nearly killed, like his mom only caring when he got hurt.

I can’t think of more stuff. I know there is.

The point being, Buck has always been with people who feed into his mommy issues.

Even with Natalia, he’s impressing her for her affection.

Either the writers were doing it on purpose, or it was just a crazy coincidence.

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Now, here’s the buddie part of this because I may not think the writers are going to take it there, but…

Eddie doesn’t feed into any of it, in a good way. He’s attentive to his own son, and to Buck. He trusts Buck. He worries about Buck’s safety, yes, but not because he can’t take seeing Buck get hurt but because he just doesn’t want to see Buck hurt. The difference being how Buck’s mom couldn’t see a kid in a hospital because of how it impacted her and how Ali left because of Buck’s impact on her. Eddie doesn’t want Buck hurt because of how it impacts Buck, which in turn could impact Eddie, but he’s not thinking of himself. You get me? Eddie comes when Buck calls. Eddie comes when Buck doesn’t call. He doesn’t have to work to make Eddie like him. No climbing trees for him.

This makes Eddie more like Maddie. Someone who Buck loves and loves Buck in return, no questions asked.