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15 Grey’s Anatomy couples ranked on their relationship functionality

By Meg Dowell

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GREY’S ANATOMY – “Papa Don’t Preach” – Catherine is back in town and has no idea what’s been going on between Jackson and Maggie, while her relationship with Richard has become distant. Owen and Amelia treat a woman who fell in the basement and quickly realize that there is more to the story; and Maggie is shocked to learn about some of Richard’s relatives who are seeking help, on “Grey’s Anatomy,” THURSDAY, NOV. 7 (8:00-9:01 p.m. EST), on ABC. (ABC/Kelsey McNeal)KELLY MCCREARY /

14. Maggie and Jackson

Never fear — Jaggie has earned its rightful place as one of the most dysfunctional ‘ships we’ve seen in the show’s entire history. That’s almost 15 full years of many great and terrible relationships, and this — one of the most recent — has been one of the worst.

Surprisingly, the fact that Maggie and Jackson are technically step-siblings is not the reason they just don’t work. (Their respective parents married when both “siblings” were grown adults, so it’s not as strange as it might seem.)

It turns out both Jackson and Maggie aren’t great at relationships. Maggie is just generally awkward and selfish and extremely over-dramatic (but maybe she’s working on that?). And Jackson, judging by how things ended with April, doesn’t always deal well with most of these things.

It doesn’t help that he wasn’t completely “over” April when he and Maggie got together. Failing to tell her when the two of them started talking again was a mistake. Her being completely unwilling to try to make him happy — even if it meant sacrificing some of her own — didn’t make things any easier.

Most importantly, though? Half the time it didn’t even seem as though they liked each other. The entire relationship felt like that awkward phase of every romance where all you do is flirt and snuggle and share secrets, but don’t truly let yourself be comfortable (yet).

Relationships that work? They work because each party is willing to support and love and be honest with the other. Jaggie never moved past the awkward phase, and it never had the chance to mature. Maybe now that these two are (temporarily?) apart, they’ll have the chance to grow separately, independently from one another.

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