Is Hope Really Gaslighting Liam?

lynnsmom, 6/15/2023, 9:22AM(323 days ago) @matisse

I think you bring up a good point. I don't think she has accepted that she has feelings for Thomas at ALL even though she is actively having fantasies, she was uncomfortable even admitting that she felt "something" to her mother. She is a married woman with kids who holds herself to a high moral standard. That's why she is so disturbed by all this because she does love Liam and their life. She doesn't want these feelings and thinks she is in control because she would never do that. I do believe she loves her husband and doesn't want to destroy her life. Liam has generally been her end all be all and now she's really drawn to the wrong man. She hasn't actually acted on those feelings so to me she hasn't actually done anything, yes she is emotionally intertwined with Thomas, but it's a one-sided entanglement since Thomas is oblivious even though he is a full participant.

At the same time, she doesn't want to give up Thomas, as his face gets more revealed in the fantasy - I think this symbolizes her own acceptance of whats happening with her.

As someone said, she's gaslighting herself. She fighting with herself and currently losing...

Good points, but in seeing Tom more clearly in the fantasy, does that mean she wants a life with him, over the life she has now? I doubt it. But, we know from the spoiler for next week, the choice is not going to be hers to make anymore. Liam goes to Rome to surprise her and tell her he was sorry for not trusting the situation, he is going to get an eyeful or earful, and then the choice is going to be Liam's. Hope will not choose Tom over Liam even if she is head over heals for Tom, so this is going to be Liam making the choice. I am now wondering if whatever happens leads to Tom losing all the ground he has gained in his mental health, and Hope will be to blame? I do blame Hope for all of this stuff. She knows she is having fantasies about Tom, and she knows she is putting Tom above her own husband and child....she should be adult enough to know that she needed to stop working with Tom without someone else in the room, all the time. And that she should have been talking this out with a therapist, priest, or best friend or even her dad, who is no novice to any of this stuff and he is street savvy. Let's say Tom is just not biding his time here, which I think he is still a sicko, but let's say he is not....Hope is not only messing with her life, Liam and Beth's life, she would be messing with Tom too. Hope is the bad guy here. She is going to have to own this now, whichever direction it goes. Another thing, she has given Steffy the moral upper hand here by denying to Steffy the truth about what Steffy saw, she has also given ammo to Taylor to use against her and her mother. And Ridge will be none to happy with her if Tom regresses because of her school girl fantasy act.

Hope is doing wrong, but she is not in control of what Thomas does. If Thomas goes off the deep end, it is because Thomas has not changed. If he is soooooo very fragile that Hope can "set him off", he should be taking care of himself by not putting himself in the situation as well. Hope isn't responsible for Thomas' actions, ever.

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