Joan Clayton had it all figured out: she had her dream career, and all that was missing was a husband and kids. In the first episode, we watch the character, played by Tracee Ellis Ross, enter her late twenties, stressing about being behind. She thought she should've been married by then. But planning your life doesn't guarantee it will go that way; we all know that. Joan's obsession with becoming a wife is probably why she was the last of her friends to get engaged or married.

Lynn married William, which was very unserious, and later, he married Monica. Toni married Todd, which made Joan jealous because Toni was getting everything she wanted. Maya married the same man, Darnell, twice. She was the first in the group to have a husband; they were together for years before she met the friend group.

All this happened before Joan found her true love, Aaron, and they got engaged in season seven's finale. She finally got her ring for real, but we never saw her walk down the aisle. In the second episode of season eight, Aaron's National Guard unit was called to Iraq. So Joan spent the rest of the season alone as a fiancée, and in the final episode, she got a message that Aaron was returning home.

AND THEN, the show was canceled. From day one, Girlfriends fans saw Joan with endings that were never fully happy. So here we are, ranking her boyfriends from best to worst because, why not?