General Hospital: Willow’s Surprising New Love Interest Exposed – Who Faces Heartbreak?

General Hospital puts Willow Tait (Katelyn MacMullen) finally getting her divorce from Drew Cain (Cameron Mathison). And right now, of course, her first priority is her kids, getting more access to them. But eventually, she’ll move on from this mess with Drew.

And then she’s going to need a new love interest. So, we’re wondering who is the next man for Willow. I mean, a guy would have to be crazy to date her, right? We’re going to talk about what unlucky man might be next in line to romance Drew’s soon to be ex-wife.

Willow’s Trainwreck of a Love Life on General Hospital

Now, let’s talk about her messy love life. So recently we saw Willow get the scare of her life when Drew showed up at their home on his own two feet walking and talking after Nina Reeves (Cynthia Watros) rolled his wheelchair into the lake trying to drown him. Drew was soaking wet and absolutely infuriated at Willow.

Everything that Drew’s diabolical wife put him through for the last several months had him ready to choke her. Willow tried to kill him by putting two bullets into Drew’s back at close range. That alone should make her undatable. Then Willow injected Drew with a paralytic that kept him prisoner in his own body for months. Any man should run from her.

Drew’s Torment on GH

And Drew had to sit there and listen to Willow go on and on. Plus, Drew had to listen to Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota) who threatened to kill him repeatedly. And then of course, Nina just tried to kill him again out of pure desperation, trying to protect Willow. None of this makes her prime dating material. Not at all. And at this point, Drew wants to destroy Willow’s life.

And I’m sure that Drew doesn’t want Willow to move on with a new man and find love and find happiness. He’s also furious that Jack Brennan (Chris McKenna) played that blackmail card that shut down any chance that Drew had to call the cops on Willow and someone and report them. So, Drew cannot ruin Willow’s life, at least not in the way he wants. At least not yet.

And we also know that Michael Corinthos (Rory Gibson) girlfriend, Jacinda Bracken (Paige Herschell), has some plot cooking this week to take down Willow. Looks like some pills might be involved. And at first, Michael doesn’t know what Jacinda is plotting, but no matter what, Willow is a survivor and she’ll get through that also. And once she’s legally divorced from Drew and gets past these plots against her, at some point we are going to see Willow in a new romance. But the question is, who in Port Charles would tangle with her? An accused husband shooter.

General Hospital: Willow’s Romantic Options

Well, the first person to consider as Willow’s next love interest is one of her several ex-husbands, Michael. And of course, he hates what happened to their marriage and that Willow cheated with Drew and chose that guy over him. But never say never because Michael and Willow share two kids and did have some nice moments in their history. Certainly their children would like to see their parents back together. And I think we know Michael’s not going to last with Jacinda. That seems pretty clear.

Michael might consider a reunion if Willow swallowed her pride and begged him to reconsider for their kid’s sake. And if Michael is single, he might consider it in part because I think he knows it would infuriate his uncle Drew to see Willow is back with him. However, I think General Hospital fans would hate to see Michael back with Willow.

I would be shocked if Michael took her back unless he had some kind of ulterior motive. You know, maybe he’d get with Willow as part of an agenda to get rid of her for good. Michael might take the keep your enemies close tactic, but then again, I don’t think he would get back with her because it would hurt the kids when it didn’t work out. So, I don’t think that’s the kind of plot that Michael would engage in against her just because of them.

Willow Lands GH Newbie?

So, with that in mind, Willow might do better with somebody who’s new to Port Charles and doesn’t know her messy and tawdry personal history. There is a hunky new guy, Tristan Roberts (Dean Geyer) who is a cardiac surgeon at General Hospital. He’s fresh meat and he has no idea how toxic Willow is. And she does have a very pretty face.

And so far, he seems to be a pretty decent guy, but he is involved with the WSB, at least to some extent. He denied to Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) that he was placed at General Hospital by the WSB to keep an eye on her. But we also saw Jack recently confront him, and it seemed like the doctor is in a little deeper than he let on.

Plus, once you’re on the WSB radar, obviously, you kind of have no choice but to do what you’re told. So, who really knows what the guy is up to? But he is handsome and I assume he’s rich because he’s a cardiac surgeon and Willow’s very pretty and she’s up at the hospital a lot. So, she and the doctor will meet at some point and maybe they wind up on a date.

General Hospital: Willow Might Reunite with Chase

Another option is another of Willow’s ex-husbands, Harrison Chase (Josh Swickard). And again, I think a lot of fans would hate this, maybe even more than they would hate Willow being with Michael again. Most fans despise the fact that this ex keeps risking his marriage and his career to defend Willow when she’s guilty as heck.

And at this point, he finally seems to have his head on straight. He’s putting Brook Lynn Quartermaine (Amanda Setton) and Phoebe Wilson (Lucia and Luna Brighton) first. Plus, he and Brook Lynn signed the formal adoption papers for Phoebe this week. But Willow keeps popping up in his orbit relentlessly, if you ask me.

And it seems that Willow has some kind of lingering feelings for him. Brook Lynn is on to her, but of course, he remains blind to how devious and diabolical Willow really is. I don’t think he has any kind of residual romantic feelings for her, but he’s definitely protective of Willow and he thinks she’s a good person.

But with those pills in play this week, maybe Jacinda drugs this ex and Willow and gets them in bed together. Maybe she takes Michael’s plan and runs with it in an extreme way that could ruin his and Brook Lynn’s marriage and open the path to a reunion.

GH Shocker: Willow Seduces Brennan?

Another really awful option to consider is Brennan. And the only reason I mention this is because it could happen if Willow got really angry with her mom. And Willow might decide to do her mom dirty since her mom slept with Drew behind her back and hid it from her for months.

If you remember, that blew up at Willow and Drew’s wedding at the altar and it was a huge deal breaker for Willow and she blew up at her mom, didn’t want her in her life. And since then, they have reconciled.

But you never know, Willow might get really mad at her mom and target Jack and sleep with him as revenge. I don’t think Jack would necessarily go for it willingly, but you know, she might drug him or do something terrible.

General Hospital: New Connections and Past Traumas

And the last option I can see other than General Hospital bringing in a brand new person that we’ve never met is to pair Willow with another new guy in town. He just arrived and we don’t know much about him. We’ve heard he’s complicated. And Willow seems to like dark things. He seems like a good possibility to me because he’s around the same age. He’s nice looking. And Willow tends to get enticed by men with darkness in them. Michael and Drew both have dark sides.

Chase doesn’t, to be fair. And I think Willow is just messed up about men because of the cult, Dawn of Day. If you remember, her mom handed her over to Hank “Shiloh” Archer  (Coby Ryan McLaughlin) to assault when she was a teenager. He took her virginity and kept forcing himself on her. Got Willow pregnant, and she ran off, hid the baby from him and the cult. That was the baby that ended up dying.

So, if I’m being honest, what Willow needs more than a new man is some therapy. Some intensive psychotherapy to deal with her childhood and teenage trauma from her mom and the cult and other painful experiences so that Willow can get her head on straight and have a normal relationship and not keep making bad choices like Drew. But I don’t think it’ll happen unless somehow she’s sent to a psychiatric facility for a timeout. Then maybe she’ll get the help she needs.