Favorite Moment of Every Episode | Season Three Episode Eight | Second Sons

This moment is not exactly a ‘favorite’ because it reflects something good or fun, rather, it’s one of those moments that hits home in a personal way.

Sansa is forced into a marriage with Tyrion, and although neither of them want it, for Sansa it is a moment of true despair and you can see it so painfully reflected in her eyes and her body language.

Sansa is a lot like me in that we both dreamed of a fairy tale, happily ever after wedding since we were little girls. That’s what we had grown up seeing and what we were exposed to, so that’s what our expectations naturally were. But Sansa is shown the harsh reality that life doesn’t always work out that way.

I, too, struggle with the same feelings and realizations. All that I ever wanted for the majority of my life was to see myself get married to that one person, my soulmate, my one true love. After trying so, so hard at so many failed relationships and sacrificing so much of myself to people who didn’t deserve it, well, I have tossed that prospect aside entirely. 

So, it’s not something I long for or want for myself anymore. And, most of the time I‘m okay with that. But, sometimes it still hurts when there are constant reminders that marriage is still, for the most part, what society expects and demands, especially from women. 

I look at Sansa at this part and even though the circumstances are different, our feelings of disappointment and sadness are the same as we see that something we once believed in is destroyed at our feet.