By Erin Kayata
Since July, millions of people tuned in to the third season of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” to see which love interest Isabel “Belly” Conklin would end up with at the end of the series: brooding Conrad Fisher or his younger brother, the more easygoing Jeremiah.
The Amazon Prime series based on a trilogy of novels by Jenny Han is mainly centered around the love triangle between Belly and the two brothers. But after the more recent episodes — in which Belly and Jeremiah end their engagement when it becomes clear there are lingering feelings between her and Conrad — fans are also left wondering about another relationship.
What will happen between the Fisher brothers? Is it possible for them to repair their relationship after they both dated the same woman?
“They have to talk about it,” said Northeastern University applied psychology professor Laurie Kramer. “It’s not going to automatically come back. Those kinds of hurts are going to persist. They’re going to have to renegotiate and restructure the relationship for them to really satisfactorily move forward.”
However, the fact the two even dated the same person shows their relationship may have already been bad in the first place, she added.
“Usually with siblings, there’s a little bit of a code of ethics,” said Kramer. “There are some things that are just off limits. If you know your brother is deeply in love with someone, you don’t go after them.”
