Bridge is a tool not a coupling (General)

I have wrestled with this question for years, what purpose does Bridge serve? I am hard-pressed to find Brooke fans who really want her with Ridge. Is there a more dysfunctional soap coupling in the history of soaps? Perhaps Laura marrying her rapist Luke. So I have concluded it’s just a writers tool. The show doesn’t care about the Bridge story. The writers over use the bridge break up and make up merry go round to introduce new characters or new actors to the story. When bridge breaks up typically there’s somebody around they want to give more air time to such as Shauna a few years ago and now the new Dr. Taylor and Deacon. So maybe I’ve been focused on the wrong frustration. Maybe the show knows that bridge is not a real relationship that it serves only as a tool to move things around. I just wish they would come up with some other ways of moving things around. Many of us have invested in Brooke’s growth and we are tired of the character being shows doormat.

Brooke is what sixty skip the bridge breakups just make her nice gram....the breakups stink anyway

I have wrestled with this question for years, what purpose does Bridge serve? I am hard-pressed to find Brooke fans who really want her with Ridge. Is there a more dysfunctional soap coupling in the history of soaps? Perhaps Laura marrying her rapist Luke. So I have concluded it’s just a writers tool. The show doesn’t care about the Bridge story. The writers over use the bridge break up and make up merry go round to introduce new characters or new actors to the story. When bridge breaks up typically there’s somebody around they want to give more air time to such as Shauna a few years ago and now the new Dr. Taylor and Deacon. So maybe I’ve been focused on the wrong frustration. Maybe the show knows that bridge is not a real relationship that it serves only as a tool to move things around. I just wish they would come up with some other ways of moving things around. Many of us have invested in Brooke’s growth and we are tired of the character being shows doormat.

Bridge's purpose is being a supercouple that's defined by always finding their way back to each other no matter what, because they are destiny. And to make them find their way back to each other they have to be broken up first.

I don't watch any other soaps, but I don't think there are many other couples who have been front and center in their show for 35 years. And the few that may exist have surely broken up a number of times too over the years, because you simply can't keep two characters on the frontburner of a soap for all these years by having them happily married for most of the time. A better writer might be able to give them a bigger variety of reasons for breaking up than the constant triangles, but soap marriages simply aren't meant to last longer than a few years, no matter how much the show is invested in a couple.