Even though Nancy was dating Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) at the time, her friend Barb's disappearance inspired her to work with Jonathan. The duo stayed friends until season 2, when Nancy and Jonathan decided to start dating.
Nancy Wheeler is a fictional character from the Netflix television show Stranger Things, portrayed by American actress Natalia Dyer. She is the sister of Mike Wheeler, the girlfriend of Jonathan Byers, and the ex-girlfriend of Steve Harrington.
In 1983, Nancy began dating Steve Harrington, a popular boy at school, making out with him "a couple of times".
Steve Harrington from Stranger Things might be everyone's favorite character on the show, but he certainly didn't start off that way! He originally was just Nancy Wheeler's jock BF with a little bit of an ego problem in season 1, until Jonathan Byers stepped in during season 2 after they broke up.
While season 1 saw Nancy falling for shy guy Jonathan despite dating Steve, season 2 revealed that the budding journalist was still holding back her feelings for the eldest Byers son by digging deeper into her relationship with Hawkins' most popular jock.
In Season 2, with a little encouragement from Murray Bauman (Brett Gelman), Nancy and Jonathan finally acted on their feelings for one another, and in Season 3, they're in a full-blown relationship.
Once they were up in his bedroom, Nancy asked Steve to give her some privacy which he proceeded to do so until Nancy changed her mind and undressed in front of him. They proceeded to have sex. They were unaware that Barb was being abducted by a ferocious monster. After having sex with Nancy, Steve fell fast asleep.
Nancy falling back in love with Steve after three seasons of getting and then being over him feels abrupt and out-of-character. It feels less like an organic development on Nancy's side and more a cynical decision: fans like Steve better than Jonathan now, so Steve deserves to win the love triangle.
In season 1, Nancy dates Steve but it soon becomes apparent that she's attracted to Jonathan. In season 2, Nancy and Steve try to make things work but, Nancy confesses to Steve that she doesn't love him and begins dating Jonathan afterwards.
Steve is initially portrayed as a stereotypical 1980s popular “jock”; he has an antagonistic personality, yet attracts the attention and admiration of many students. Steve is shown to be dating Nancy Wheeler, but after he harasses Jonathan Byers by breaking his camera, Nancy seems to become close to Jonathan.
The previous season of the hit show saw Nancy honing her investigative skills alongside Charlie Heaton's Jonathan while Robin was introduced and almost exclusively paired with Joe Keery's Steve. However, Season 4 decided to switch things up, putting Nancy and Robin together, and the result was undeniable magic.
Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton
This Stranger Things pair is a couple both on and off the screen!
Steve Harrington
Steve is revealed to be one year older than Jonathan and Nancy, with the character having just graduated from high school in Stranger Things season 3.
Dancy. Dancy is the friend ship between Dustin Henderson and Nancy Wheeler.
Diagnosis: You are obsessed with Stranger Things and fully wish the show were real. Sadly/thank-god-because-monsters, it's not—but! Nancy and Jonathan are dating IRL and have been since season 1.
We can already see that being in a long-distance relationship isn't something that helped Jonathan and Nancy prosper. Yes, both of them have been worrying their heads about the relationship, and, yes, both of them love each other, but they've also been doing just fine on their own.
Yes, Steve has his shortcomings; he breaks the rules and does everything to keep up his cool pretense. Still, we learn that he takes his relationship with Nancy very seriously; he helps her study and respects her boundaries.
Jonathan reveals to Argyle he got accepted to Lenora Hills Community College and is struggling to break the news to Nancy, saying he doesn't want her to follow him and ruin her life while also not wanting to go to Emerson to chase a dream that isn't his.
Nancy cheating has never really been brought up. She literally slept with Jonathon while still being in a relationship with Steve. Sure, they had a stupid fight, but they didn't actually break up. And even after that, she didn't even apologize.
He primarily focused on Nancy, who he was infatuated with. What Jonathan didn't know was that he captured the lurking Demogorgon just before it caused the infamous death of Barb.
Stranger Things season 4 saw couple Nancy and Jonathan living in different states -- Nancy in Indiana, Jonathan in California. The distance put a strain on their relationship, not least because Nancy spent more time with Steve, her ex-boyfriend. Nancy first dated Steve in season 1, when he hung out with nasty bullies.
For starters, she's a girl, one of the few teen girl characters in the first season. And many LGBTQ+ viewers saw Barb as a closeted queer character with an unrequited crush on Nancy.
"Chapter Six: The Monster" is the sixth episode of Stranger Things and the sixth episode of the first season.
While Steve has become quite the hero, he was unable to find love after the end of his relationship with Nancy Wheeler. In the fourth season of Stranger Things, it was revealed that Steve still had romantic feelings for her.