Hello and welcome! My name's Heather, I'm a registered professional counselor and a certified
life coach. Today I'm going to be analyzing Joe Goldberg's love interest from the Netflix Series
YOU. Before I get started, please show your support and subscribe to my channel for more
videos like this. Let's get to the show. Guinevere Beck is Joe's love interest in season one. She's
a broke NYU graduate student, a yoga teacher, and an aspiring writer. Her lack of self-identity and
her kindness makes it difficult for her to set boundaries with her friends and Benji.
Her innocence is partly what attracts Joe to her and blinds her from his dangerousness.
She has a tendency to be consumed with the drama in her life, whether it be her rollercoaster
friendship with Peach or her struggles with school and her writing, Beck seems to be oblivious to
Joe's obsession with her. He recognizes the drama in her life and does whatever he can to rid her of
toxic relationships so that she can focus on her writing and their relationship. Joe is desperate
to be the perfect boyfriend for Beck and feels that she needs him in order to be complete in
her life. It appears that Beck has a habit of avoiding or withdrawing. This may be due to her
complicated relationship with her father whom she tells others that he died from an overdose even
though he's alive sober and has started a new family. Growing up in a household of addiction,
it can be hard as a child to predict what will happen. It could be even more difficult to watch
your father start a new family clean and sober as this could bring up feelings of abandonment or
feelings of being replaced. She's learned to have superficial relationships and to push people away
or to not get too close to them. Her relationship with her father can also explain her attraction
to emotionally unavailable men, such as Benji and Dr. Nicky. Joe becomes more obsessive and
controlling the more that Beck withdraws; thus, feeding into his insecurities of being cheated on
and intensifies his need to control the relationship. We learned that Beck cheated on Joe
with her therapist, Dr. Nicky, and claims she only did this because she thought she didn't deserve
a good relationship. "I didn't know what to do with that because I didn't think that I could
have it." Her tendency to self-sabotage may stem from her father's abandonment when she
was 12 as she believes that she doesn't deserve a good relationship with her father. After Beck
learns that Joe has killed Benji and Peach, she ends up in the cage. Joe tries to convince Beck
that everything he did was out of love for her. "Everything I have done, I have done for you."
and that her life is better because of everything he's done. As a way to win Joe's trust and to
escape the cage, she writes a book pinning the murders on Dr. Nicky. When she finally reveals
that she can never love Joe, "You're broken. I could never love you" he kills her and framed Dr.
Nicky for her murder. Even in his inner monologue he justifies that he continued to help her,
"And I gave you what you wanted. I feel good about that. I helped you become the writer you so wanted
to be." Candace Stone was an aspiring musician in a band and Joe's girlfriend before Beck.
While in a relationship with Joe, Candace cheats on him with another guy named Elijah who signed
her record deal. Joe believes that Candace was being taken advantage of and he confronts Elijah
at a party only to push him off the roof when he starts talking badly about Candace.
In an attempt to leave him, Candace tells Joe that she never loved him. "I don't love you! I never
had!" This leads to Joe kidnapping her and trying to rekindle their relationship. Joe's attachment
injuries have been triggered and he does whatever he can to convince Candace why they should stay in
a relationship. As Candace tries to escape, Joe believes he accidentally killed her and tries
to bury her in a shallow grave. When she wakes up, the police were unable to help because there is no
evidence against Joe. So she takes the officer's advice and disappears. "He thinks you're dead.
Stay that way." That is until she hears about what happened to Beck and suspects that he was
involved in her death. Candace was unable to deal with the fact that her abuser is still out there
walking free and endangering others. This leads her to confronting Joe, following him to LA,
and trying to protect Love from Joe in season two. "I'm gonna show you who you really are."
Candace knew what Joe was capable of and she made it her mission to protect other women from him.
She was the only one who survived the traumatic attack from Joe. Instead of trying to move on
and heal from her trauma she put her safety in jeopardy to try to protect other women from
what happened to her and Beck. It's possible that Candace experiences post-traumatic stress
disorder from Joe's attack. We see an example of this when she gets triggered at the resort and she
has flashbacks of her in a violent exchange with Joe. She may also be experiencing survivor's guilt
knowing that she survived Joe's attack and Beck did not. Seeking justice and protecting others
from Joe can be a form of coping for Candace. Moments leading to her death she thought she
fulfilled her mission by exposing the real Joe to Love. Trying to comfort Love after leading
her to discover Delilah's body in the cage, Love actually kills Candace to protect Joe. Love Quinn,
Joe's girlfriend and wife, is a pastry chef from Los Angeles who works at her family-owned
high-end grocery store named Anavrin as a produce manager and chef. When Love meets Joe she was
still grieving the loss of her husband, James, and sensed that Joe lost someone important as well.
This shared experience bonded them even if Joe was trying to break out of his past relationship
habits. Joe's feelings for Love changed when he learned that she killed Delilah because of how it
will affect Ellie's life. He planned to kill Love, but spared her life when she revealed that she was
pregnant with his child. Joe and Love do whatever they can to give their child a better upbringing
than they had. Love focused on trying to have the perfect marriage and to be enough for Joe. Love
could sense Joe's lack of commitment to her and the relationship as he became fixated on their
neighbor, Natalie. This can increase feelings of fear of abandonment and insecurity causing Love to
seek attention and comfort from Theo. This becomes evident when she has an affair with Theo. Trying
to make up for this she desperately tries to bring back the spark in her relationship with Joe
by having an open marriage. When this didn't work, Love still fears that Joe will leave her
so she tries to convince him to have another baby with her. Joe, on the other hand, stayed with Love
for the sake of Henry as he feared for his and Henry's safety. Joe fell out of love with Love in
season two and was planning his exit strategy with Henry and Marienne. When Love tries confronting
Joe about him being obsessed with someone else, "Who were you thinking about just now? Nobody
just you it's always you. [ __ ]" He gaslights Love and tries to convince her that he's not
and that he's only committed to her. "Our marriage is completely one-sided! That is absurd!" The main
difference between Joe and Love is that Love can be reckless with her kills. This creates feelings
of fear within Joe as he finds her unpredictable. On the surface, Love and Joe do seem to be an
ideal match as they both have severe attachment disorders that stem from early childhood trauma
and toxic abusive caretakers. These past relationships have shaped their definitions
of what it means to love and to be loved in very different ways. Love is not only a reminder of the
most unstable woman in Joe's life: his mother, but also a mirror of his own behaviors. She's
been told repeatedly that she's "impulsive" as she feels misunderstood for her actions. In the end,
Love discovers Joe's obsession with Marienne and tries to kill Joe believing that he was a
toxic relationship in her life and the reason why their marriage failed. Joe, being one step ahead
of Love, ends up killing her and staging their deaths. Which one of Joe's girlfriends is your
favorite? Let me know in the comments below! Marienne Bellamy is Joe's current obsession.
She worked at MandreLinda's public library as a manager and hired Joe as a volunteer. Marienne
is smart, assertive, and fiercely independent. She connected with Joe over their love for books
and also their childhood experiences. Marienne also has a daughter and is an aspiring artist
for children's books. She also struggles with addiction and is doing what she can to better
her life and the life for her young daughter. Joe is attracted to Marienne's maternal nature, most
likely due to the relationship with his mom. "It's mother issues. How's that for self-awareness."
She is also separated from her abusive ex, Ryan Goodwin, the local news reporter who is battling
Marienne for custody over their daughter. Joe learns about Ryan's history with Marienne and
how he is purposely ruining Marienne's life. Ryan is well connected with powerful individuals in the
town and has the status and privilege to control Marienne's life. Joe, yet again, does what he
can to protect her including trying to make Ryan relapse and eventually killing him so Marienne can
be free. Joe feels a strong connection to Marienne because of their broken childhood and feels that
she is the only one who understands him. He feels the need to start a new life with her and their
children and to leave Love behind. Marienne also feels a strong attraction to Joe. She tries her
best to set boundaries, but Joe convinces her that he's leaving Love and that their marriage is over.
She believes Joe is a good guy and believes that he's gonna do whatever he can to protect her
and also support her, something she's never experienced with her previous relationship
with Ryan. When Love figured out that Joe was the one who killed Ryan, she sets up a meeting with
Marienne as a plot to kill her. Love spares her life when her daughter interrupts her conversation
and we see that Love warns Marienne of Joe's tendencies and the lengths he would go to for his
current obsession. "You need to run, disappear. Ryan is just the beginning of what he's willing
to do." After Love tells Marienne to leave, she takes her advice and disappears. Joe suspects
that she fled to Paris where he changes his name to Nick in order to continue his search for her.
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