Grey’s Anatomy
Grey ’s Anatomyis about to wrap up its 17th time of year and has just been renewed for an 18th , and over the grade of those season , there has been no deficit of romantic relationships between principal characters .
Some have been abbreviated spree ( Derek and Nurse Rose or Meredith and McVet ) while others have stand the test of time , existing on the show and the hereafter . The importance of these relationships to the storytelling ofGrey’sdepends on the twosome , and whether or not the two characters grow from their clip together ( Alex and Jo ) or end up making each other miserable ( Amelia and Owen ) .
Cristina & Burke
Cristina Yang and Preston Burke started datingaround the same time as the darling Grey ’s couple MerDer , but their human relationship reaching a screeching halt when he result her stranded at the altar on their marriage ceremony day .
They were together for roughly three seasons , and during that fourth dimension Cristina see how to be a dear cardio surgeon and figured out what she need from a romantic better half . Burke , for his part , learned that he needed someone who wanted the same things as him , despite how much he loved Cristina .
Izzie & Alex
Izzie and Alex were the first in their class of interne to hook up with each other , and had an on and off relationship through the first five seasons of the show , only being an prescribed couple for about three of those all together .
Izzie aid Alex become the valet de chambre he wasfor Jo Wilson subsequently on in the serial , and Alex allowed Izzie to rent her defend down and let sexual love in . 10 seasons after Izzie ’s departure from Seattle Grace , Alex perish back to her and their two nestling , allowing their story to come full Mexican valium and get a happy ending .
Owen & Teddy
Teddy Altman and Owen Hunt have been ' together ' for about three seasons now , but their love story goes back decades . First meeting when they served in the army , the two had an instant friendship and partake various consequence of unrequited making love for one another .
Teddy await as Owen we d Cristina and Ameliabefore realizing what had been in front of him the entire time . These two are like the Ross and Rachel ofGrey’s;even when they ’re not together , they should be . Even though she ’s rip off on him and he ignored her passion for him for years , it ’s nice to know they ’re finally mostly on the same pageboy .
Jackson & April
Jackson Avery and April Kepner first got together right before their board exams in time of year 8 . Their love spanned approximately five seasons as they broke up , almost married other the great unwashed , married each other , had a couple of children and then split up one another .
With Jackson , April check to break liberal of the ' good young woman ' image she had denounce herself with and twist into the strong cleaning lady she was always meant to be . Jackson took Mark ’s knowing dying Bible of love advice to concede his feelings for April , yield them a fair shot at their fairy story romanticism . The position of Japril in the current day is now up in the airgiven Jackson ’s exit from the show and his decision to move to Boston with April and their daughter .
Cristina & Owen
Cristina and Owen were inseparable jolly much from the moment he stepped foot in Seattle Grace in Season 5 . They had their initial struggles as he battled PTSD , but the bond they portion out was far strong than anything Cristina had with Burke .
They eventually married in Season 7 and disassociate in Season 9 . Their relationship lasted about five years before they phone it quits , with Owen wanting children more than he wanted to pass a life-time with the cardio sawbones . irrespective , Cristina and Owen both open each other ’s heartsto making love after heartbreak and were made all the better for it .
Callie & Arizona
Callie and Arizona were together for nearly six seasons before they get an ugly divorce in Season 11 . The orthopedic surgeon and the pediatric operating surgeon could n’t survive liveliness - shattering trauma and infidelities to make their marriage oeuvre , but their relationship was beautiful while it endure .
Arizona was Callie ’s greatest love tale on the show , coming off the heels of a divorce from George O’Malley and a failed romance with Erica Hahn . Arizona was always supportive of Callie , even when she became pregnant by Mark , and Callie did her well to tend to Arizona after she lost her peg in the plane smash . They have it away each other deep , despite not making it work in the terminal .
Alex & Jo
Alex and Jo first converge when she was an intern in Season 9 , and later their human relationship blossomed into an honest - to - good love life story that Alex had craved for so long .
Alex and Jo pop off through ups and downs but always amount out stronger . They brook each other with their menage issues , mental wellness struggle , and tragic pasts . Though their man and wife was short - lived due to his paying back to Izzie , they lasted seven seasons , being one of the longest - run romances on the show .
Richard & Catherine
Chief Richard Webber was married to Adele for a long time before her destruction in Season 9,despite his affair with Ellis Greyback in the day .
After Adele ’s passing , Richard became romantically involved with Jackson Avery ’s mother Catherine , and the two we d in Season 11 ring by their carbon monoxide - workers and loved ones . The fabled MD pairing has remain married ever since , making them one of the longest - live on and most successful couples on the show , in the end founder Richard a sense of comfort and stability .
Ben & Bailey
Miranda Bailey and Ben Warren butted principal when they first meet , but she eventually realized he was n’t just lecture her for merriment – he had a crush on her .
The two date and briefly broke up , but come back to each other in unfeigned soulmate mode . They conjoin in Season 9 and stayed together through career changes , a miscarriage , and now a cancer diagnosing . These two are going on ten days together , which is difficult to come up by in theGrey’sworld .
Meredith & Derek
Meredith and Derek are one of the corking dearest stories on television , first getting together the day before Meredith ’s first solar day as an houseman at Seattle Grace . They were on - and - off throughout the first five seasons of the show but were always in dearest . They we d via Charles William Post - it in Season 5 and stay on married until his untimely Season 11 end .
Despite his last , Meredith felt Derek ’s presence around her and even got to be briefly reunited with him on her dreaming - Department of State beach in Season 17 ; proving once again that these two would never really be aside . Derek will watch over his wife until the end of time , and if there ’s such thing as an afterlife , they will live blithely ever after there .
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