it’d be soooooo funny if at some point mrs. lovett was like hm. you know he’s. he’s not even that cute. still in love with his wife weirdly. lowkey obsessed with his mortal enemy and super into nihilism which isn’t my jam at all. doesn’t even LIKE the beach. maybe he isn’t actually worth all the trouble. but by that point she knows she’s in too deep and just Commits Even Harder to trying to bang sweeney because one, it’s lowkey embarrassing to realize a crush you’ve nursed for over a decade was vastly out of touch with reality, and two, once you’ve unofficially adopted a kid together, your financial wellbeing is permanently tied to his, and he’s become a serial killer and you’ve started helping him cover it up by feeding the corpses of his victims to your customers, you’re officially locked in. like you really can’t come back from that so this guy is definitely your true love because at that point he HAS to be.
