What would happen to Beth Dutton if she lost the love of Rip Wheeler?
Will Beth ever let him in about her deepest, darkest secret?
These are the Beth and Rip details that Yellowstone fans totally missed.
While Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler have had an incredible on-screen romance,
the fact stands that these two definitely had a huge imbalance in terms of who had more power
early on in the relationship. As many "Yellowstone" fans know,
the pair couldn't be from more contrasting backgrounds. As a child, Rip witnessed the
deaths of both his mother and his brother at the hands of his father, and then killed his
father himself ... which is what landed him at the ranch owned by Beth's father in the first place.
The fifth episode of Season 2, "Touching Your Enemy," really takes viewers deeper
into the power dynamic between Beth and Rip. As the daughter of the man who employs Rip,
Beth is able to approach her future love interest with a degree of control that we
don't always see from women on screen. When Beth outright tells Rip to kiss her, he wants to, but:
"I don't know how."
The Season 1 episode "Kill the Messenger" features an evening shared by Beth and Rip that is pretty
unusual. The pair are supposedly on their "first date," sitting in the back of Rip's truck,
drinking whiskey, and watching a pack of wolves devour a deer. That's when Beth says:
"I've done some morbid sh-t on a first date, but this one takes the cake."
"It's far from a first date."
The implication is crystal clear: This might be the first time the two have spent any real time
together in a long while, but their history runs much deeper than a night hanging out in a car.
Despite their deeply passionate romance, Beth and Rip's relationship
seems doomed from Beth's perspective. As viewers learn over time, she has a secret
that she's worried will undo any progress she and Rip make together. In "Going Back to Cali,"
Beth finally confesses that secret to Rip. While explaining why she always comes and goes,
constantly running toward and away from Rip, Beth admits,
"You know why I always run away? Because
there's only so much that I can give you, Rip."
Beth reveals to Rip that she can't have children,
and that's why she's been so flighty over the years. Of course, Rip assures Beth that if
his life is meant to only be lived with her, that is more than enough of a life for him.
Not being able to have biological children with Rip Wheeler is a huge part of Beth's
character arc on "Yellowstone." In a lot of ways, it's not really a surprise that
the pair found themselves functioning as foster parents to a teenage boy.
And while it's true that neither of them handle their new responsibility particularly well,
in a strange, only-Beth-and-Rip kind of way, the threesome does resemble something of a family.
At the beginning of Season 4, Beth is introduced to a teenage boy named Carter
whose dad is dying. Beth decides to take Carter in,
but Rip isn't sure that he's ready for the responsibility of having a teenager around.
Rip might not have the best reaction when it's time to welcome Carter,
but through conversation with Beth, he begins to see the potential in the situation.
By acting like parents, they're able to grow closer together as a family.
While Beth is open with Rip about not being able to have children,
there's a larger part of the story that she leaves out for years:
As a teen, she got pregnant with his child and ended up terminating the pregnancy.
Actress Kelly Reilly explained to TVLine that carrying this secret
puts Beth in an unenviable spot: She is worried that Rip will find out one way or another,
but she's scared that she might lose him if he learns what happened. As Reilly told TVLine,
"So she's thinking a day might come when he might find out
or she will tell him. One would say she should tell him."
The idea that Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler are soulmates probably isn't anything new
to most fans of "Yellowstone," but what binds these two together
is pure, unconditional love. Cole Hauser explained to Deadline that
Rip Wheeler's been a goner for Beth since he was a teenager. As he put it,
"As far as Rip's concerned, that was his first and only love from when he was 15 years old."
Kelly Reilly continued by explaining that Rip gives Beth something she can't find anywhere else.
"Beth and Rip are soulmates and have been since they met. They are so tough and hard
headed and the capacity of violence is in them both, but they provide a safe haven for quiet,
peace and love and she doesn't have that with anyone else in the show."
Even though they're characters in a TV show, the love that Beth Dutton and Rip
Wheeler have for one another is inspiring to fans of the show all around the world.
However, the way Beth has literally run away from and back to Rip over and over
again could make some people question whether she's really all in or not.
As Kelly Reilly sees it, the character she plays is so far in that if something were to happen to
Rip, it would probably spell the end of Beth as well. Despite how hard Beth can be, Reilly told
Parade that Rip and Beth's father are the two most important people in the world to her. As she said,
"I think the worst thing that could happen to Beth is to either lose
[her father] or Rip ... She's very generous with people she loves."
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