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Originally Posted by jammies
That makes sense, but I wouldn't put up with her passive-aggressive needy crap, so why does he? Once she started to thaw, he should have been looking elsewhere for cover, not giving into her dubious charms. That he doesn't seems to indicate that he truly does care for her and the kids, but I have to question: why?
I just don't see their relationship as being based on anything real. He cannot explain his true self to her, so how can it be emotionally satisfying? What exactly is it about her that inspires him to such torments of the soul? I just think she is an uninteresting and vapid character and find the idea of obsessing over her bland suburban charms laughable considering what Dexter is - a man who lives an intense, complex private life that requires hugely violent stimuli to make him feel anything at all.
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Interesting take Jammies...
I'm on board with you... I think that in the beginning (and perhaps still), Dexter is actually invested in her kids more than her. That does seem to have changed in season 3 though.
His affinity for the kids is demonstrative of the nature side of the nature/nurture debate the show is premised on. What keeps bubbling up in his actions is paradoxically not his repressed homicidal being, but rather his 'normalcy' (manifest through his desire to protect innocent children, for example).
I actually think that what the end result will be is that he realizes he's fundamentally a normal dude who was turned into a monster by Harry (or at least guided in that direction). It's not that he's a monster that was tempered by the code of Harry, as Dexter as fallible narrator would have you believe, but rather the other way around. He's actually a normal dude who is struggling to repress his normalcy through the guise of being a homicidal maniac... I think.