Walt is clearly a manipulator. He controls most, if not all, of the facets of his life - his wife, her sister, her sister's law enforcement husband. He controls Jesse, his former science partner and his ex-partner's wife, even the school principal for a while. All this took a large part of his time to construct, and a sizeable amount of effort and attention to keep together. I believe that Walt saw Gale as a wild card, something that was to be intrinsic to his existence, but something he didn't design for. Like juggling too many balls, his belief would be that he would not be able to convincingly control Gale; he had to go. But the contract with Gus needed 200 pounds per week, and the lab work required two people for that amount - Jesse remained his partner, not by preference, but by default. The real factor that cemented Walt and Jesse together was the threat to both their lives from Gus, thus requiring elimination of Gale to leave themselves as the defacto meth kings.
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