24 TV Couples Killing it at Marriage

8. Monica and Chandler, Friends

Forget Ross and Rachel. Monica and Chandler were THE couple of Friends. They avoided all the nonsense drama and built their relationship on friendship, respect, and love. When they discovered they couldn’t have children it only made their relationship stronger.

Maybe life didn’t turn out exactly as planned, but Monica and Chandler taught us how to embrace the unexpected.

Monica: Chandler, for so long I wondered if I would ever find my prince, my soul mate. Then three years ago, at another wedding I turned to a friend for comfort. And instead, I found everything that I’d ever been looking for my whole life. And now, here we are, with our future before us – and I only want to spend it with you, my prince, my soul mate, my friend. Unless you don’t want to. You go!

Chandler: Monica, I thought this was going to be the most difficult thing I ever had to do. But when I saw you walking down that aisle I realized how simple it was. I love you. Any surprises that come our way, it’s okay, because I will always love you. You are the person I was meant to spend the rest of my life with.

7. Derek and Meredith, Grey’s Anatomy

Even when life made it nearly impossible to honor the vows on the blue post it, Grey’s Anatomy’s Derek and Meredith chose to be extraordinary together. They worked at their marriage. They fought for it even when they wanted to run.

Derek: What do we want to promise each other?

Meredith: That you’ll love me even when you hate me.

Derek: No running. Ever. Nobody walks out. No matter what happens.

Meredith: That we’ll take care of each other even when we’re old and smelly and senile. And if I get Alzheimers and forget you –

Derek: I will remind you who I am every day.

6. Eric and Tami, Friday Night Lights

Nobody exemplified “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose” better than Coach Taylor and his wife Tami.

They knew how to disagree while remaining one another’s biggest supporters. They knew how to compromise without compromising themselves. They knew the importance of forgiveness, respect, and fun.

They are TV marriage perfection.

Coach Taylor: Marriage requires maturity. Marriage requires two people that will listen, really listen to each other. Marriage, most of all, requires compromise.

5. Jamie and Claire, Outlander

Traveled through time to be together. Jamie and Claire give new meaning to the word commitment.

Claire: Blood of my blood.

Jamie: Bone of my bone.

4. Diggle and Lyla, Arrow

Diggle and Lyla were divorced when they fell in love again, but they got it right the second time around. Their lives are filled with danger and it requires sacrifice. However, the challenges Diggle and Lyla face also help prioritize what is truly important – love, family, friends, duty, and honor.

They work as a solid and cohesive unit, even when they disagree because they don’t take each other for granted. They are equals in every way.

Lyla: You really want to do this?

Diggle: Hell yes. Do you?

Lyla: More than the first time.

Diggle: Good because I’m not letting you get away from me this time.

Lyla: I’m holding you to that.

3. Jack and Rebecca, This Is Us

Jack is pretty much the perfect husband and Rebecca ain’t half bad either. These two continually teach us how to make the sweetest lemonade out of the sourest of lemons.

Jack: You know when I was a little boy I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Adults always ask little kids that. I never had a good answer. Not until I was 28. Until the day that I met you. That’s when I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be the man that made you happy.

2. Randall and Beth, This Is Us

Randall and Beth make stability cool. They are co-parent pros, face tragedy with grace, know how to have fun and keep things spicy.

One of my favorite aspects of their marriage is how they handle Randall’s anxiety. Whether it’s playing a game of “Worst Case Scenario”, calmly talking him down, or calling him out if necessary, Beth is Randall’s queen for a reason.

They are goals. Pure and simple.

1. Oliver and Felicity, Arrow

Arrow has the opposite problem of the Moonlighting Curse. The show suffers when Oliver and Felicity are kept apart.

Happily, Season 6 was the permanent end to those shenanigans as Oliver and Felicity officially tied the knot. They also immediately dived into parenthood and their moments with William are co-parenting at its best.

Their transition into marriage was almost effortless because Oliver and Felicity acted like a married couple long before any legal documentation made them so. Married is their natural state.

Oliver and Felicity challenge each other, support one another and always bring out the best in one another. They also teach an important lesson about relationships.

We don’t need anyone to be our light. We all have a light within us. Love is about finding the person who can harness your light.

In other words, love the person who brings out the very best version of you.

Felicity: I believe in you. I believe that no matter what life throws at us our love can conquer it – married, unmarried. I love you.. My greatest fear, my greatest fear in life is losing you.

Oliver: You’re the very best part of me. Felicity, I am a better human being just because I’ve loved you.

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