Ridge "rolling his eyes" while Brooke was talking today

Cendrillon, 6/3/2022, 10:20PM(695 days ago)

At the beginning of the episode, right around the 0:55 mark, Ridge practically ROLLED HIS EYES while Brooke was going on and on. It was a "moment" between Taylor and Ridge, as she looked at him while Brooke was laying it on her, and he did the eye roll as though "his wife" was being unreasonable. You would have thought Brooke was his MOTHER at that point! lol

The reason for the virtual eye roll was clarified later on when Ridge said he has had to process a lot lately, and Brooke said that she has had to do the same, to which Ridge responded emphatically that HE AND TAYLOR have had way more on their plate than Brooke with everything that happened to their daughter and son-in-law. Next thing you knew, Brooke was asked to leave him alone with his EX-WIFE - and all she got from him was "I'll see you in the office!" which was very very cold. Not even "I'll call you later".

Sure, Ridge had that Liam-like WORRIED PUPPY DOG look on his face as Brooke left, referring to him as her "lovely husband" - but that also explains why Ridge is returning to her next week. He generally likes to make it LOOK like he's keeping his hands clean, from a public standpoint, and as Thorsten Kaye said, he wants "to try and make his marriage work", so that no one can fault him for leaving his current wife for his ex-wife. Especially because everyone knows that Sheila switched the champagne bottle labels, and so he knows it's going to look bad if Brooke's so-called "lovely husband" leaves her high and dry because of something the madwoman Sheila set into motion.

Ridge is ALL about public appearances. And the fact that Brooke called him her "lovely husband" soon after he said "I'll see you at the office" reminded the doofus that the optics would not be good if he left Brooke for Taylor right now. On the other hand, if BROOKE were to dump him because she finds out about Ridge and Taylor keeping the truth about Thomas from her, then he will have the PERFECT EXCUSE to reunite with Taylor - his own hands will be 'clean', and he will say he can't help it if Brooke couldn't understand why he was trying to protect his son. That will be on BROOKE, in his mind.

Of course by the time something like that were to happen, Taylor would already be with Deacon (or Bill), and that's going to complicate things momentarily.

But what was clear from today's episode is that Ridge DOESN'T RESPECT Brooke as a person, whereas he does respect Taylor. Oh yes, he might thoroughly enjoy HAVING SEX with Brooke - but that's always been the whole point of Brooke to him. Caroline and Taylor were the good, clean cut girls - the heiress and the doctor - while Brooke was the bad girl from the Valley who turned him on, but she NEVER had his respect as an individual!

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