Women’s obsession with Rip isn’t because he is good-looking. It’s the patience he has with Beth, no matter how unreasonable she is. It’s that he lets her be as crazy as she needs to be without calling her terrible names or walking away or leaving her. It’s how he defends and takes up for her even when he knows she’s wrong. And how he never calls her out about being wrong in front of other people. He saves that for when they are in private. Because in public he’s on her side 100% and makes sure everyone knows it.
That’s the fantasy all women have became obsessed over since the first season of Yellowstone. That is love