I know it might sound a little stupid to ask but what is your opinion on Eddie and Dixie's relationship? My sister and I have been having this argument for too long. She says they had this special kind of friendship and them sleeping together was just not wanting to be alone and scared. Please help me clear this up a bit. They did fall for one another right?
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I think they had a relationship where he was using her talent, but had an affection for her, and she had very little respect for him, but was using him as a career vehicle, but was hostile toward him mostly. When he wanted her to spend the night with him, she did it reluctantly, but the next morning after they had sex she was hoping they could have a new and deeper relationship. He was wanting to avoid scandal more than anything, and so rejected that, and she reacted with some bitterness and went back to her former attitude toward him.
I think she falls for him after they sleep together but he wishes they hadn't slept together. I think they always liked each other(in a friendly way)and only slept together because they were scared and upset about what they had just seen.
I think she wanted them to go into a relationship but he didn't.
It is my business to protect your majesty.... against all things.
In many ways, Eddie and Dixie became closer to each other than to anyone else in their lives, barring Danny. They could easily have developed into something more except for 2 major roadblocks - his career and her emotional wall of defense.
Dixie knew Eddie for what he was and didn't want to be reduced to just another woman panting after him. She had also been deeply wounded by Michael's death and didn't want to lay herself open again to the possibility of that kind of hurt - especially with a man like Eddie.
Eddie cared for Dixie as much as he cared for any woman. They were working partners, for all intents they were raising a child together, and I think Eddie couldn't figure out why sex shouldn't be another one of the perks of their relationship. But if they had been lovers it would not have stopped Eddie from doing a single thing he did: firing Art, bullying everyone around including Dixie, or sleeping with the chorus girls.
Sometimes no matter how much you care about someone, it's just not healthy to get into a deeper involvement with them. I think both of them could have made each other far more unhappy than they ended up doing if they had pursued it.