The Doomed One

In Charmed's season one episode Dead Man Dating, Phoebe Halliwell converses with Prue about being a witch and being in love. She tells Prue that they're The Charmed Ones, not The Doomed Ones. But as the years go on and Phoebe continues down the path of battling demons, viewers see Phoebe stumple into and out of relationships like there's no tomorrow. And it's not Phoebe's fault. She lost her mother at a young age as well as he father. She had no role model for love or lasting relationships. Hello! Grams married four times. So Phoebe only had Cinderella as her only source of romance. Her childhood love source didn't surmount to much, though, because Phoebe's not looking for The One. I mean she's had plenty of opportunities to fall in love, as the season two cupid said. It's her closed heart that's bundled in the past. You see she's felt it since her mother's death. The lonely nights, her mother's missing touch, her father's unprotecting stand, that's what causes her love problem. She's not open to love because she's never held it. But the moment that love does sweep Phoebe off her feet, it's with the enemy. Phoebe falls for Cole, the demon Belthazar. Phoebe and Cole's love is monumental; it's lustful and intoxicating. But their love was unlucky from the get go. And all relationships after Cole have been unlucky as well. Phoebe has stumpled from relationship to relationship. Jason and Dex to name a few of her relationships. It's all because she holds back to keep her heart protected from what reality she knows: martial problems and death. She doesn't want to risk love to lose it. She's afraid, and unil she releases that fear, Phoebe will never relinguish her crown as The Doomed One.