Romanticizing the Normal Life

If there's one thrope that I really can't stand - second only to miscommunication - is characters with cool and interesting lives dreaming that they were married with kids and having a 9 to 5 job.

In a sense, I can see where this comes from. Sometimes you need a break. Fighting monsters can sound kind of cool, but sleeping for four hours a night - if even that - and running only on your anxiety and PTSD, certainly does not.

But what's funny is that the one time Sam and Dean were given the opportunity to be just normal everyday dudes, they immediately found each other and went back to monster-hunting. So it's clearly not possible for them to do that.

But here's what I don't understand: why can't they combine the two? Why can't they have a partner who is also hunter? It's kind of like the bisexuality thing. Just because you have to hunt monsters doesn't mean you can't have a family? To this day I haven't heard a good argument about this.

"They want to stop being hunters!"

Yeah, but they can't! Haven't you been watching the show? That's the entire point! They are too good of people to just stop fighting evil. And even when they have been given the opportunity, their instincts brought them back to hunting.

"But all the hunters couples we've seen have died!  They don't want for their partners to die!"

Sure, and what's the alternative? Knowing that the supernatural exists and not being able to fight it at all? Not knowing about it and not having any way to defend yourself when it targets you? Having to constantly worry about your partner and possible kids, instead of knowing they can fend for themselves? Having to keep secrets from them?

I think my perfect Supernatural ending would be Sam and Dean settling down with Cas and whoever Sam ends up with someone, and heading off to their next adventure.