January 2021 - conversation when Liam cheated

Drangonfly , 6/28/2023, 10:45AM(309 days ago) @matisse

Liam: I`m not trying to justify what I did. I know that`s impossible, I know that. I`m just... I`m just trying to explain how it happened. Hope, when I thought I saw you kissing Thomas I thought I was seeing the end of my marriage. I thought I was learning that everything I ever believed about you and your love for me was a lie, and suddenly nothing made sense anymore. Nothing! I felt crazy, I felt like one of those people, who-- who wakes up from a nice dream only to find themselves in a world of cruelty and chaos. I was spiralling, Hope. And then I started, then I started questioning how long had it been going on, how long had you and Thomas been carrying on with this affair, reassuring me to my face and then laughing at me behind my back. I was losing it! I needed an anchor. I needed a constant. Something... familiar.

Hope: Then you went to Steffy.

Liam: I wanted so badly for my life to make sense again, and so yeah, I-- I went to Steffy`s. Even she said it was crazy, even she said she couldn`t believe it, that you would kiss Thomas, and that-- that should`ve told me something. But she took my word for it when I said I saw it with my own eyes. And then... when I started drinking, she... she did too. For me. I love you so much. I do, and if you let me, if you let me I will spend the rest of my life making this up to you. I will never betray our vows again. Cause I-- I need you. I need our family, I need our life together. I need it! Just... just tell me I didn`t completely screw this up, okay, just... just tell me, that it`s not over, that there`s... there`s a chance, a small chance you could forgive me. Please? please?

Hope: If you had been unfaithful with anyone else, it would`ve hurt. But Steffy, given the history the three of us share... it`s like a knife, Liam.

Liam: I hate myself for the pain I`ve caused you. And I know I have no right to ask for your forgiveness and yet here I am asking anyway, because... because I know how big your heart is. I mean, we`ve-- we`ve faced obstacles before, big-- big obstacles. Ones, that would tear any other couple apart forever. And yet our love always carried us through and... I don`t know, I guess I just keep telling myself that that`s gonna happen this time because I have to believe that, I don`t have a choice. You`re too important to me, Hope, you`re just, you`re too important. Please, just... just say that you`ll try. No, say that you`ll let me try.

Hope: I believe you love me. I believe you`re sorry for what happened. But be honest with yourself, Liam. You love Steffy, too.

Hope: To know the woman was Steffy, that`s... that`s painful enough, Liam. But to hear that you slept with Steffy because you thought I`d cheated on you, that you thought our marriage was over... You know, I don`t-- I don`t care if you were drinking because you of all people should know the issues that Steffy and I have, and you just ran right to her. Without even giving me a chance before the two of you... before the two of you let what happened happen. And I understand that you felt betrayed, but you didn`t even take a second to learn that it was just a misunderstanding that could have been solved that night. You just wound up in Steffy`s arms, that`s where you were instead. Is that really what you want? Is that what you want? You want your family with Steffy?

Liam: No, no. I want you. Only you.

Hope: Well, then why? Why do you always turn to Steffy? You don`t make love to your ex-wife unless you miss her and you want to be with her.

Liam: You`re my wife, Hope. You`ve-- you`ve made me happier than I ever thought possible. I do believe we can come back from this, I do believe that. If you just-- if you give me a chance, a chance to prove my devotion to you, to prove my commitment to you, to prove that you are the most precious thing in my life. If you just... can you just give me that? Can you give me that chance?

Hope: I`ll give you this. At least you told the truth. You and Steffy, you could`ve kept it a secret between the two of you, there was no reason for anyone to know, so... but you were honest. And I do love you. It would take time to move past this, if we even can, and things wouldn`t be the same, not at first, if ever. But I love our family. We finally got Beth and the life that we made for her. And Douglas, and they -- they mean everything to me. Their happiness means everything to me. So I will try. For our children. For their future, I will try. But that`s all I can offer you right now. And Liam, it can never ever happen again.

Liam: It will never happen again. It will never happen again and that`s all I ask. Thank you. Thank you! I am going to repair the damage that I`ve done. I will.

Hope: I do have one question, though. Why now? Why are you telling me everything now?

Liam: There is, umm... there`s one other thing you need to know. And it`s-- it`s big. I also wish that I could just put that night behind us, I wish I could never think about it again. But that may not be possible.

Hope: What are you talking about? What, Liam?

Hope: Steffy is pregnant.

Liam: Which is why we can`t put that night behind us, at least not until we know...

Hope: ...if you`re the father. She has to take a paternity test.

Liam: Yeah.

Hope: There`s a chance it could be Finn`s, right?

Liam: A very good chance.

Hope: All of this is too much. All of this because you thought I kissed Thomas. Something that I would never ever do, but you didn`t even stop to think. You made a choice to run to Steffy, and now what? One moment of weakness and everything changes. You just went and threw our entire future into question.

Liam: Please don`t give up on us.

Hope: You gave up on us. You betrayed our vows. It wouldn`t have been easy, but I think I would`ve been able to eventually move on and find forgiveness, but now... with Steffy carrying a child that could be Kelly`s little brother or sister, I mean... How do we move on from that? We were so close!

Liam: Hope...

Hope:(crying) You know how much I love you? How much I dreamed of our life together? And our family? And then you just went and threw it all away. Because... because you forgot who I was. You lost faith in me and you lost faith in us and you turned to Steffy... I thought you knew who I was. So... so what do we... what do we do now? What do we... how do we move past it if you`re that baby`s father?

Seems to me they can now just switch Liam and Hope's name in this dialog, and Tom and Steffy's name, because it is basically the same SL. And Hope probably did do him and probably is pregnant too, if they just dusted off this script.

And, in looking for this I also found a few kisses that Tom planted on and unsuspecting Hope, that she never told her husband about. LOL. So I think that nothing burger kiss lasting 1 second, should really be no issue for Hope, given she had a few of those herself that Liam has never learned about.

Look at Hope's dialogue in this transcript. It's not about the kiss or how long it lasted. It's because he always turns to Steffy. That's the issue.

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"I love you more than anything or anyone in the world. And I want you by my side for the rest of my life."

"You're the love of my life."

Liam to Hope. Debate over.

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