Carrie Bradshaw Love Interests: Dating History SATC, AJLT

On Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker‘s dating life provided plenty of humorous moments in one-off episodes, but it was the men who made it to boyfriend, fiancée and husband status whom fans love the most.

The love of Carrie’s life, Mr. Big, played by Chris Noth, was there from the very beginning. After a chance encounter on the street followed by other random run-ins, the pair began seeing each other, ending up in bed on their first date and breaking pal Charlotte York’s cardinal rule. But the sex columnist couldn’t get Big to commit to being a one-woman man until halfway through season 1. Carrie broke up with him in the final episode of the season after the tycoon refused to introduce her to his mother as his girlfriend.

The pair rekindled their romance in season 2, but it once again ended in tears when Big had to move to Paris for business and didn’t tell Carrie until the last minute. She decided to stay behind in New York after he told her she shouldn’t move abroad just to be with him.

Carrie went about with her dating life and had her heart shattered when she later ran into Big at a party in the Hamptons where he was with his new love, Natasha, whom he was engaged to and later married, despite telling Carrie he’d never wed again after his first marriage failed.

Enter Carrie’s next great love, Aiden Shaw. She fell for the handsome furniture maker, played by John Corbett, in season 3. He was the anti-Big, who was kind, loving, open about his feelings and put Carrie on a pedestal. But when Big became unhappy in his marriage, he began calling Carrie and the two ended up having a torrid affair that ended his marriage to Natasha, as well as her romance with Aiden.

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Carrie and Aiden rekindled things in season 4, with the pair eventually moving in together and the newspaper columnist reluctantly accepting his marriage proposal. But she ultimately couldn’t commit to a wedding and the two went their separate ways for good … until the sight of him holding a baby with his new wife made her realize she needed to get back in the dating game, where infamous Post-It breaker upper Jack Berger came along, played by Office Space star Ron Livingston.

SJP’s character went on to have one more major romance on SATC with Mikhail Baryshnikov‘s more mature Russian artist Aleksandr Petrovsky. Carrie then went on to marry Mr. Big, whose name was revealed to be John Preston, in the first movie, and is back in the dating game on the SATC Max revival, And Just Like That.

Keep reading for a breakdown of Carrie Bradshaw’s boyfriends, fiancés and husbands.

Carrie and Mr. Big

They were meant to be. It literally took the entire run of SATC for Big to realize Carrie was “The One.” He flew to Paris to tell her that in the final episode of the series, and they eventually married in the first SATC movie, after most of the action was spent with the pair apart after a miscommunication on their original wedding day left Carrie mourning and heartbroken for most of the film. Their courthouse wedding at the movie’s end was attended by Carrie’s close gal-pals, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda.

The second SATC movie explored how their married life was going through a case of the doldrums, but the time And Just Like That premiered in December 2021, the pair were the picture of wedded bliss. Big died from a heart attack while working out on his Peloton in the first episode of the series, and Carrie spent the rest of the season mourning his loss and attempting to move on with her life.

Carrie and Aiden Shaw

Aiden gave Carrie his heart twice during Sex and the City and she shattered it both times. First, she cheated on him with Mr. Big, having a night of passion in a hotel while the furniture maker was back at her apartment stripping her floors as a way to make her home more beautiful. Their ongoing affair culminated in Big’s wife getting injured and the pair ending their torrid romance, but Carrie’s guilt led her to confess to Aiden that she cheated on him, and he ended things

The author then decided she wanted Aiden back in season 4, begging him for another chance, which he gave her. This time around she was a faithful girlfriend but got skittish when she reluctantly accepted his marriage proposal. After Aiden tried to talk Carrie into wedding dates, she admitted she was never going to find a point where she would be ready for marriage, and the pair sadly went their separate ways … at the time.

John’s character reappeared in the second Sex and the City film and appeared in season 2 of And Just Like That. He and Carrie reconnected even though the former furniture maker was living in Norfolk, Virginia, helping raise his three teenage sons with his ex-wife Cathy. Aiden and Carrie decided that their romance was the real deal and the author even bought a huge new apartment for the couple where his children could visit after Aiden refused to ever set foot in her old place, which was the scene of so much pain.

After deciding to move in together with Aiden commuting back and forth to Virginia, one of his sons got drunk and rolled his dad’s truck while trying to get back to his house after a fight with his mom. Aiden blamed himself for not being there and told Carrie their romance would have to be put on hold for five years so he could be a constant presence for his three sons. He went so far as telling Carrie she couldn’t even visit him in Virginia, although he hoped to rekindle things once day. As Aiden left what would have been their home together, Carrie told him, “Hey, no matter what happens, this [her new place] and this [the two of them] was not a mistake.”

Carrie and Jack Berger

The two met while Carrie was in the process of putting together her Sex and the City book of essays. The fellow writers immediately hit it off, but he had a girlfriend at the time. After they split, Carrie and “Berger” (as she called him) began dating but found many awkward moments along the way.

Their first few attempts at having sex were disasters and he later got dropped by his publisher right as Carrie was coming into more money from her book sales. With their lives going in different directions, the pair took a time out to decide if they wanted to keep their relationship going, which both ultimately did. Upon telling each other the news, Berger spent the night at Carrie’s apartment, only for her to wake up in the morning to find him gone with a Post-It on her computer screen that read, “I’m sorry. I can’t. Don’t hate me,” in one of the series’ most memorable breakup moments.

Carrie and Aleksandr Petrovsky

After her disastrous romance with Berger, Carrie took on and older “lover” in the sixth and final season of the show. Even though she had nothing in common with the handsome Russian artist, they were drawn together by curious chemistry and her awe at his worldly ways. They eventually became an exclusive couple, but Carrie’s friends found Aleksandr off-putting and arrogant and didn’t like how their pal always seemed to come second in his life to his art career.

As the series finale loomed, Carrie quit her job writing her Sex and the City column at the Daily Star and moved to Paris to be with Aleks as he worked on his latest art installment, despite her friends’ disapproval. Once she was in the City of Light, Carrie found herself alone and isolated by the difference in culture and language and missed her friends back home.

She broke up with Aleks after it was clear she would never be his priority in France among his friends and art community. That same evening, Big showed up at their hotel, found Carrie and took a walk where he told her she was “The One” and always had been, and that it had taken him way too many years to come to the realization. The series ended with Carrie and Big returning to New York as a couple, where she was last seen reuniting with Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte at their diner and catching up just like old times.

Carrie and Franklyn Hernandez

The final episode of And Just Like That season 1 saw Carrie have a passionate makeout session in an elevator with her handsome podcast producer, played by Never Have I Ever star Ivan Hernandez. When season 2 rolled around, they were having sex at Carrie’s place every Thursday after working on her podcast.

While he attempted to take things to the next level by asking her on a date to a rooftop bourbon release party, Carrie agreed then had a change of heart that she didn’t want to date anyone as she wasn’t ready for the possibility of a relationship. Their intimate trysts came to an end when her podcast was canceled at the end of the second episode and the two went their separate ways.