Did Steffy really just say Taylor would never ever cheat? (General)

Right there with you!

Regardless of who Ridge ends up with in Aspen, everyone loses.
- if it’s Brooke, Taylor, Steffy, and Thomas don’t get there perfect little family.
- if it’s Taylor, the reign of the Hamiltons begins, with the Logans losing.
- whoever gets Ridge will be stuck with a guy who looks like a cad after all these months.
- Bell is going to lose viewers by the drove.

I fear that B&B is on the verge of achieving endangered species status.

The only potential winners are those viewers among us who decide to reclaim their sanity and 18 minutes a day by refusing to watch this mess.

I agree. We won't hear the end of it from either camp, and we'll be subjected to the fallout from it for months because it involves all the front-burner characters. I'm afraid we won't get rid of the Tridge/Bridge war unless one of the three leaves.

KA is around until 12/2023. So, hang on folks, it is going to be a bumpy ride.

She might be around longer. From what I see on her social media lots of Taylor fans have accepted her as Taylor and love her!

Taylor scewed James when she was unseparated and Ridge wasn't presumed dead, and she kept the secret for years. Later she also deceived him with Thorne and cheated with Hector when TRIDGE were very married and not separated.
That cabin kiss is the only time Brooke consciously kissed another man back since that Hector-Taylor stuff. Brooke and Ridge had signed divorce papers and she was going to confess the next day, not 10 years later. Apples and oranges.

Taylor didn't keep the secret about James for years, she agonized over it for one month and then confessed the truth to Ridge in a letter. She had no way of knowing that Ridge never got the letter since she was presumed dead right after that.

She admitted to Stephanie she knew he never got the letter. They went to therapy together and she never owned up when the doctor asked them to tell each other everything. That was in the dialog between Taylor and Ridge the night she told him about cheating and also making out with Hector in their bedroom.

That sounds like an impossible rewrite - how could Taylor possibly know that? Who would have told her and how would she even have got the idea to ask? As far as she knew, she left a letter in her own home and nobody but Ridge would have seen it. The only one who knew that the letter never reached Ridge was Stephanie (and possibly Jack if Stephanie told him), so how could Taylor "admit" to Stephanie something that Stephanie knew and Taylor didn't?

1/4/06:

Taylor: No, no. Ridge and I need to be completely honest. Stephanie, there's a secret that I've been keeping. It's about an indiscretion from my past. And I wrote a letter about it once to Ridge to tell him about it, but he didn't see the letter, and we never talked about it. But it's time that he knows the truth.

Stephanie: No, I do not want you to tell Ridge. Look, I know what this is about. I know you slept with James. But this is so insignificant now, after all the years that have passed. I do not want you to tell your husband. If you do, you'll lose him. I don't want that to happen.

I have no idea how she knew he did not see it, but she knew. And, this is straight from the transcript.

this is more from that night:

Ridge: Taylor, you know I appreciate you.

Taylor: Well, I didn't feel that way on New Year's. At least, not from you.

Ridge: So hector realized what you were feeling and he took advantage?

Taylor: I was vulnerable. And we both knew that. And I asked him to leave, but he didn't. He followed me upstairs.

Ridge: Hector was up here in our bedroom, again? You kicked him out, right?

Taylor: I told you, I was hurt and I was confused. Ridge, I let him kiss me. - (and she did this without someone spiking her cider. LOL)

Ridge: He kissed you? Right here in our bedroom?

Taylor: I know, I shouldn't have let that happen. I know that, I know.

Ridge: Did you sleep with him?

Taylor: No. It was just a kiss.

Ridge: It wasn't the first.

Taylor: It was the last. I promise, Ridge. I promise you, it will never happen again. It was one awful night, I've got to tell you. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Ridge.

This is why it is so easy to loathe Taylor. It was fine and dandy and just a "mistake" for her to be making out with Hector, more than once, but Brooke is ruffied and kisses Deacon and she and Steffy are painting it like Brooke purposefully got drunk on Apple Jack and was dancing naked in front of Deacon on the coffee table. LOL

later...

Ridge: You and James Warwick? You telling me you two had sex?

Taylor: That's all it was. That's it. It was nothing more. It wasn't making love. There wasn't a relationship -- it only happened the one time, when we were trapped in the cabin together.

Ridge: And how long ago was that? So why am I just hearing about this now?

....later

Taylor: Okay, right, what? What? What, ask me anything, ask me. I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything.

Ridge: I really don't need to hear anymore about James.

Taylor: Okay, then let's just talk. Let's talk about anything. I don't know, maybe there's something you want to talk to me about? Something you haven't been able to?

Ridge: Like what, Taylor, huh? Like what? All these stupid things that I've done have been right out there in the open. Every major stupid thing, you've been a witness to.

Taylor: I know, I don't cut you much slack, do I? All I can do is hope you'll be more forgiving than I've ever known how to be.

Ridge: Just making it okay for you to have sex with another man? Is that protecting our relationship, our marriage?

Taylor: Is that how you feel, like I got away with something?

Ridge: Well, didn't you? When I told you I still had feelings for Brooke, you were outraged. You made it seem like a character flaw in me. Did it ever once occur to you that maybe what you had done --

Taylor: I know, to think that what I had done, was worse.

Ridge: Taylor, I was never unfaithful, I -- did it occur to you? Did you think about it?

Taylor: I put it completely out of my mind. And then sometimes in the night, it would come back to me, Ridge. I can't tell you what I've been living with. And the shame of it would just grip me like an electric shock or something and I just couldn't stand it, I thought I was going crazy, and I'd have to put it out of my mind! Just forget about it, pretend like it didn't even happen! I'm not proud of it!

Ridge: Do you understand what you just told me? That you knew you've been condemning me all these years for something that was not nearly so bad. And all you could do was just want to put it out of your mind.

Ridge: Maybe it's the halo. I'm glad you didn't leave me a letter this time about James. I remember very well what happened when we found you guys up there. You were half frozen, starved. Black blood all down James' side. Whatever happened between you two didn't seem like a beautiful sacrifice you were making for a good friend. It seemed repulsive. I don't know why you did what you did. You thought he was dying, well -- if he was dying, he wasn't going to get to experience a lot of things, that's the definition of dying. But hey, it happened, I wasn't there, so if you want forgiveness for all that, then you got it.

Taylor: Thank you. Thank you. You have no idea how hard it's been holding it in all these years.

Ridge: You think I was going to end our relationship over something like this?

Taylor: I didn't know. All I knew was that I've never been unfaithful. I never felt unfaithful. Not unloved. That, I never betrayed.

Ridge: Never? Not in that half hour with James, maybe, but what about all the years in between?

Taylor: I don't understand the question.

Ridge: What about all the hypocrisy? What about "Taylor the good?" "Taylor the virtuous?" Holding all of us up to this standard of yours. What about the way you treated me? What about the way you treated Brooke? The years of disdain, and condescension? That, I don't understand, Taylor. That, I can never -- I can never forgive.

Wish Ridge would remember that last line. He said he would NEVER forgive her for her behavior toward Brooke, yet here he is, letting it happen right in front of his face.

I've never not once made an excuse for her kiss with Hector. As for James, thinking you're perhaps minutes away from death is as I've said the most extreme circumstance possible.

Steffy said Taylor never cheated, but she did cheat -- twice at least. For Steffy to be correct, there has to be an excuse about Hector, too. I wonder what the excuse is.

You say this about Taylor, but it's cheating. She didn't have to have sex with James for warmth. She did it so he can have a thrill before he MIGHT die. That's cheating. Period. Brooke, on the other hand, was led to believe her husband was dead -- horrifically burned up in front of her face and she almost walked into the flames -- but you don't excuse her for her mind frame.