This reminds me of the show Home Improvement. They built for a whole season the idea of Al Borland getting married, only to not get married because they just didn’t want to. I remember thinking at the time “if the hero’s sidekick can’t get married, what even is the point of all of this? It’s not like Al’s dating life is such a huge and integral part of the show.”

I really hope the follow up stories to this is Bruce wondering how he could be the world’s greatest detective when he almost married someone who knows him so poorly