Grey’s Anatomy: Maybe Amelia doesn’t need a man to be happy

Many Grey’s Anatomy fans are devastated about Amelia and Link’s breakup because “she deserves to be happy.” But maybe she doesn’t need Link to be happy.

“Go home, Link.”

And with those words, thousands of Grey’s Anatomy fans felt their hearts shatter.

Despite the show dropping plenty of hints that one of everyone’s top couples were headed for a breaking point, it was impossible not to want to throw things at our screens during Grey’s on Thursday night when it finally happened.

After deciding not to pick up the results of her paternity test — the one Link gently but firmly asked her to get — Amelia tells him the two of them are over. That she only wants her baby raised by someone who will love both of them despite who the baby’s father turns out to be.

If Amelia wants to raise her child alongside her “sisters” — the only people she can truly count on to love her and their niece or nephew no matter what — she should absolutely be allowed to do that.

Does Link still deserve to know whether or not he’s the father — and if he is, does he still have a right to be a part of his child’s life? Technically yes. Especially since he really didn’t do anything wrong, and Amelia is just, on the surface, reacting to her fear.

At the very least, though, he does have to give her space. She made it clear she wasn’t angry with him or that she wasn’t holding anything against him. She just doesn’t trust him to always love her. Maybe she’s not wrong there.

Grey’s fans are going on and on about how Amelia deserves to be happy. And she does! We’ve seen her lose the first love of her life tragically, followed by losing her first child not even an hour after he was born. We’ve seen her struggle in her marriage to Owen. We’ve stood with her through a brain tumor and an impressive amount of personal growth since.

So why shouldn’t we support her in her choice to choose happiness — even if it means doing so without a significant other at her side?

OK, so she isn’t being totally fair to Link. We have to acknowledge that. But we also, then, have to acknowledge that in “demanding” that Amelia find happiness through a relationship, we’re not being fair to her and her needs. Or realistic, for that matter.

Maybe when Amelia’s story ends — whether that moment aligns with the end of the show or her character makes an earlier exit — she’ll leave on a happy note as she very much deserves to. That just might not rely on her having a romantic partner.

It is possible, at least in the real world, to find true happiness through friendships and the unbreakable bonds between family and other meaningful people in your life.

We all rooted for Link and Amelia. Now it might be time to root for Amelia in her quest to find happiness without him. She does deserve that, after all these years.

Do you think Amelia and Link are really over for good? What is it about their relationship that made you root for (or against) them?