Is Jeremiah Fisher’s upbringing the reason behind him being a red flag? Let’s discuss!

Jeremiah’s tantrums have been through the roof in this season of The Summer I Turned Pretty but there’s a cuter word for it, we know you know what he should be called too. But let’s dig deeper into why!

On the surface, Jeremiah Fisher seems like the perfect love interest - charming, carefree, and the golden retriever who lights up every room he walks into. But beneath the sunshine exterior lies a pattern of red flags that make him far less ideal than he first appears. Season 3 in particular has been a huge revelation of who he really is as a person. Before the final season began, the internet was divided into Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah but as the new season unfolded, even most of Team Jeremiah had to migrate to Conrad because of his inexcusable behaviour.

From cheating to gaslighting, he left no stone unturned in putting off not just Belly but every woman who watches the show from around the world. Nobody wants to be with someone who makes everything about himself and is so emotionally disconnected. A tantrum over wanting a mirror glazed 80% cacao wedding cake had the internet screaming into void. Especially after giving Belly the tiniest ring possible on Earth, we felt like asking Jeremiah where he gets his audacity from! But keeping the materialistic things aside, Jeremiah’s issues lied way deeper than that. His insecurities with his brother and with himself only grew bigger by the day and unfortunately turned him into someone women should run away from!

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To understand why Jeremiah is a red flag, we need to look into his upbringing first and here’s how his insecurity festered!

The golden boy complex

Jeremiah was always treated as the younger, charming, golden boy of the family who lives a carefree life. This has resulted in him dealing with his emotions on a surface level rather than getting to know himself better and stunted his emotional maturity as an adult! Which is why when he found out about Belly and Conrad even just coincidentally meeting during Christmas, instead of asking her or having a mature conversation about it, he resorted to straight away taking revenge by arguing, taking a ‘break’ and cheating on her on his Cabo trip.

Lack of emotional accountability

Jeremiah does not know how to sit with discomfort. He avoids hard conversations and heavily relies on other people in his life like Conrad, Susannah or Belly to clean his mess for him. This avoidance yet again comes from always being sheltered as the younger one and always being the one who keeps things light. What he does not realize is that this has made him dismissive of other’s feelings, especially when they do not align with his. Hence the way he handled Belly’s emotions after she found out that he cheated on her was gaslighting and emotional manipulation at its best. Instead of working on himself, he decides to make a grand gesture and proposes to her when she is at her most vulnerable!

Constant comparison to his ideal elder brother and lack of attention from his father

Growing up Jeremiah was constantly compared to Conrad, who was the responsible one. Conrad got straight A’s at school and was dreaming of becoming a doctor. Their father, Adam, always used Conrad as an example to push Jeremiah to pull up his socks and get his life together. This just infested a huge insecurity in Jeremiah and before any one even realised, he no longer lived his life for himself, he was in a mental competition with Conrad to beat him in at least one thing and that one thing unfortunately was Belly. Even though he loved Belly and knew her all his life, it just wasn’t deep enough and often came off as a trophy that he has won to rub in Conrad’s face!

Flirtation comes as a default setting

Jeremiah used flirtation as a defense mechanism. There’s not a single guy or girl he hasn’t checked out or mildly flirted with. He thrived on the attention and validation he got from so many people and that is exactly why he couldn’t fully commit to Belly. In fact, he oftentimes expected Belly to initiate affection or even their make out sessions!

He was a mama’s boy and Susannah ruined him for good

Nobody really talks about this but Susannah wasn’t as perfect as she seemed. She is somewhere responsible for creating this chaotic love triangle between both her sons and Belly! She coddled Jeremiah so much that when she unfortunately passed away, she left him unable to see the darker and harsher realities of the world which made lashing out his instant reaction to anything that did not go his way. He was spoiled by his mama and now the rest of the world is bearing the brunt of it!

Constant self pity= Manchild at his best!

After Belly decided to not go through with the wedding, we thought the next episode would finally be about Conrad and her getting back together. But it was the Jeremiah Fisher show all along the way! Episode 9 was simply just watching Jeremiah whine about how he has been the victim of all things bad because of his brother and ex-fiancé but the truth is that he has equally inflicted pain on both of them. Not only did he expect the whole world to come and console him, he spoke to Laurel (who is the mother of the girl he loved apparently) rather disrespectfully, ruined Steven and Taylor’s moment and told Conrad that even though he and Belly aren’t married, she hasn’t picked him either! Not once did he ever ask anyone to be there for Belly, he soaked in all the attention he could get. He fits the description of every single world that Sabrina Carpenter sings in her latest hit ‘Manchild’ because if Jeremiah isn’t one then we don’t know who is!

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