"but that something completely different"

Riley, 8/16/2022, 10:10AM(627 days ago) @Grannysmith

Steffy never thought Beth should be with her…she simply said they should ease the baby away from the stability of the only home and “mother” she knew rather than just pulling her away that very night. Can you imagine how hard it would be to give up an infant you’ve nurtured since birth? This wasn’t a child like Douglas a preteen capable of voicing a desire to be with another parent. Don’t forget Steffy allowed Hope the chance to be very close to Phoebe so that ultimately Hope wasn’t a now and then stranger to her. Steffy allowed Hope a lot of access to Phoebe out of compassion for Hope’s loss…until it got a bit obsessive on Hope’s part.

I see nothing wrong with anything Steffy is saying right now. She’s given great credit to Hope as to Douglas. But if it were my brother’s preteen child voicing a desire to be with my brother, I’d support that, too.

But Douglas hasn't even voiced any desire to live with Thomas, all he asked for was to spend more time with him. That doesn't mean he would choose a permanent home with Thomas over his home with Hope, Liam and Beth.

And like you said yourself, Hope and Liam were no strangers to Beth when Hope took her home. Steffy had even appointed Liam as Phoebe's father right after the adoption and Hope was already her "aunt". So there was already a certain bond between Beth and her biological parents. Under these lucky circumstances, I think having her stay at the cliff house any longer would actually have made the situation worse, because then Beth would have gotten even more attached to Steffy. And I don't think it would have been any easier for Steffy either to give her up a few weeks later.

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