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takerkid @, 11/15/2022, 11:49PM (538 days ago)

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

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MegsMom, 11/15/2022, 11:56PM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 11 people liked this[OOO]

The problem with Steffy and Thomas is that they believe all the lies their delusional Mother has been feeding them. Taylor can't or won't take accountability for the part she played in the breakup of her marriage to Ridge. So instead, she's blamed Brooke. As I've said before, wanting their parents back together is fine. However, their behaviour and actions is inexcusable.

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Ilovebizzie, Baltimore, MD, USA, 11/16/2022, 12:11AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- one person liked this

They looked older than early teens. I felt like the actresses playing the girls were 18.

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Lizzy54 @, Austria, 11/16/2022, 12:26AM (538 days ago) @Ilovebizzie- 5 people liked this[OO]

They were not in their "early" teens, rather late teens. This was around the time when Tom got married to Gaby and the twins were a year younger perhaps..They were not children anymore.

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Tiqui1999 @, 11/16/2022, 1:44PM (538 days ago) @Ilovebizzie

They looked older than early teens. I felt like the actresses playing the girls were 18.

They were. In fact, Thomas was 17. The girls should have been about 15 then.

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Drangonfly @, 11/16/2022, 12:29AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 5 people liked this[OO]

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

Thomas and Steffy should have gone to therapy then instead of declaring war on people and trying to blow up people's marriages out of revenge.

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LiveThroughThis, 11/16/2022, 1:18AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 4 people liked this[O]

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

It’s no wonder they despise Brooke because their poisonous mother has been filling their heads with her toxic cr*p since her resurrection. They loved Brooke before that.
They need to grow up and stop this nonsense. They are two adults approaching middle age, with children of their own. Enough. They should get themselves some therapy, move on and start showing some gratefulness for all they have in life. As I like to sing to my son when he doesn’t get his own way - in the words of the Rolling Stones... “you can’t always get what you want”

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BellaSole, Beverly Hills, California, 11/16/2022, 1:18AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 7 people liked this[OO]

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

They are old enough - pushing forty - to know if they play the kind of games they've been playing, some day there will be the devil to pay. I have no sympathy for them. It's not like they grew up as orphans or didn't know where their next meal was coming from, etc. It's not like mom or dad didn't care for them. Both Thomas and Steffy are selfish, mean brats. If they suffer when this SL concludes, they brought it on themselves with their scheming and manipulating. No sympathy from me. None for Taylor, either. She's a witch who thinks she's better than everyone else. She isn't.

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Joy, 11/16/2022, 1:42AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 7 people liked this[OO]

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

Taylor should tell them the truth of why she and Ridge broke up instead of blaming Brooke. She should tell them about her affair with not only Hector, but the one night stand with James and how she kept it secret for a decade. They should be told that Brooke had nothing to do with Taylor's divorce from Ridge.

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Lizzy54 @, Austria, 11/16/2022, 2:00AM (538 days ago) @Joy- one person liked this

Taylor will never tell the truth...she is getting the benefits of her toddlers believing the urban legend that "dad left mom for Brooke".

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takerkid @, 11/16/2022, 4:29AM (538 days ago) @Joy

First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.

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BellaSole, Beverly Hills, California, 11/16/2022, 5:25AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- one person liked this

First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.

The brats opinion of Brooke won't change, but Taylor has done the worst thing of all of the show: She shot Bill and left him to die. Even Sheila isn't that bad. She has the excuse of being insane. Taylor is not. She's just a selfish witch.

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matisse, 11/16/2022, 5:40AM (538 days ago) @BellaSole- 2 people liked this

First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.


The brats opinion of Brooke won't change, but Taylor has done the worst thing of all of the show: She shot Bill and left him to die. Even Sheila isn't that bad. She has the excuse of being insane. Taylor is not. She's just a selfish witch.

Yes, that is one of the worse things done on this show. The blatant purposeful shooting in the back of Bill and leaving him to die. There is no getting past that one, even if Bill did not send her to the pokey over it. She did it, she wanted to murder someone in cold blood.

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BellaSole, Beverly Hills, California, 11/16/2022, 11:04AM (538 days ago) @matisse

First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.


The brats opinion of Brooke won't change, but Taylor has done the worst thing of all of the show: She shot Bill and left him to die. Even Sheila isn't that bad. She has the excuse of being insane. Taylor is not. She's just a selfish witch.


Yes, that is one of the worse things done on this show. The blatant purposeful shooting in the back of Bill and leaving him to die. There is no getting past that one, even if Bill did not send her to the pokey over it. She did it, she wanted to murder someone in cold blood.

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matisse, 11/16/2022, 5:37AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 3 people liked this[O]

First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.

No, no, no....she admitted to Ridge that night she finally told him about cheating on him with James, that she had made out with Hector a few times. I can bring the transcript over if you want it. Ridge asked her if it had happened more than once and she said "yes" but promised it was never going to happen again.

Ridge definitely was looking for a way out, but he also was willing to give it another try with Taylor. The night he came back from the business trip he told her he wanted to make it work, she then confessed the truth because she had to, she had been caught in her underwear with Hector, in her bedroom, by Brooke. Brooke did not do worse to Ridge than Taylor had done. Brooke had never cheated on him while they were married, like Taylor did. And, Brooke had never lied to his face about his child, like Taylor did to Ridge about Tom. Ridge left Taylor not because he convinced himself she was a hypocrite, he found out she really was one, and he realized that the woman he thought was his angel, and so perfect was a liar and a fake, and she did not have to be, but was because she did not trust him at all to love her as a flawed person. THAT is why he left her, because as he said, he did not even know her, because she lied and blamed Brooke for things she herself had done too.

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BellaSole, Beverly Hills, California, 11/16/2022, 5:40AM (538 days ago) @matisse- one person liked this

First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.


No, no, no....she admitted to Ridge that night she finally told him about cheating on him with James, that she had made out with Hector a few times. I can bring the transcript over if you want it. Ridge asked her if it had happened more than once and she said "yes" but promised it was never going to happen again.

Ridge definitely was looking for a way out, but he also was willing to give it another try with Taylor. The night he came back from the business trip he told her he wanted to make it work, she then confessed the truth because she had to, she had been caught in her underwear with Hector, in her bedroom, by Brooke. Brooke did not do worse to Ridge than Taylor had done. Brooke had never cheated on him while they were married, like Taylor did. And, Brooke had never lied to his face about his child, like Taylor did to Ridge about Tom. Ridge left Taylor not because he convinced himself she was a hypocrite, he found out she really was one, and he realized that the woman he thought was his angel, and so perfect was a liar and a fake, and she did not have to be, but was because she did not trust him at all to love her as a flawed person. THAT is why he left her, because as he said, he did not even know her, because she lied and blamed Brooke for things she herself had done too.

He still doesn't know her then, because she still does that.

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takerkid @, 11/16/2022, 2:22PM (538 days ago) @matisse

Had Taylor destroyed three different marriages? Had she gotten pregnant by her son-in-law? The answer is no? Ridge calling Taylor a hypocrite would be like someone calling me a hypocrite for jaywalking if judged someone for committing armed robbery.

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Juliah, 11/16/2022, 2:47PM (537 days ago) @takerkid

Has Brooke shot a man in the back?

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Joy, 11/16/2022, 1:17PM (538 days ago) @takerkid- one person liked this

First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.

When Brooke had her drunken kiss with Deacon, Taylor and Steffy was calling it cheating. It it is cheating for Brooke to kiss someone, then it is cheating for Taylor to kiss someone. Brooke did not want Ridge when he left Taylor. If Ridge still wanted Brooke, that is Ridge's fault, not Brooke's. Brooke was not chasing Ridge. I guess Ridge got tired of hearing Taylor and her sidekick Stephanie trash Brooke while hiding what Taylor did. That is the definition of a hypocrite and Ridge called her out on it.

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Tiqui1999 @, 11/16/2022, 1:50PM (538 days ago) @takerkid
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First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.

If Brooke is said to be a cheater for kissing Deacon and Bill, by comparison, Taylor cheated on Ridge for kissing Hector. A kiss can't be damning for Brooke, but not so for Taylor. Taylor also was having an emotional affair with Hector because Ridge wasn't around and she was lonely. She planned to never tell Ridge about that kiss or about having sex with James.

Ridge did not leave Taylor to chase Brooke. That is not true.

Their opinion of Brooke doesn't matter any more than the family's opinion of Quinn mattered to Eric.

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Liz @, 11/16/2022, 1:57PM (538 days ago) @takerkid

First of all Taylor didn't have an affair with Hector. She kissed him once. More importantly though Thomas and Steffy know the abbreviated version of the truth, Ridge left Taylor to go chase after Brooke. The longer version is that Ridge was looking for an exit where he wasn't the bad guy and convinced himself that Taylor was a hypocrite for something that happened over a decade prior and in spite of the fact that Brooke had done more and worse. I don't think those details are going to change their opinion of Brooke.

I'd love to see a clip or read a transcript where Ridge said to Taylor or to anyone for that matter that he was divorcing Taylor because Brooke was stealing him away from his family.

The truth as you mention above is that Ridge didn't want to be with a woman who boinked a man while she was married to him, hid her adultery for years and hypocritically sat in judgement of the behaviour of others.

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IW, 11/16/2022, 4:02AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 5 people liked this[OO]

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

I'm sure a part of Hope would like to see her parents together too. It doesn't mean she is setting up innocent, abusing children and stabbing her family in the back. She isn't harassing Brooke 24/7 about how perfect Deacon is for her. Finn's parents aren't together but I don't see him talking about it non-stop. Besides, Taylor's family imploded because of her own lies, her repeated infidelities with TWO different men and her over-the-top hypocrisy. Brooke didn't have to lift a finger.

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Barbybo, 11/16/2022, 4:18AM (538 days ago) @takerkid

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

What I don’t get they see Ridge 24/7 Taylor lives not far away ..they do family gatherings ….steffy and Tom are adults time to lay back …they are ruining the show with this ancient stuff show needs new stuff not older characters rewind yet again…boreing been done …rewash…there lucky now both parents are seen daily as it is..

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matisse, 11/16/2022, 5:45AM (538 days ago) @Barbybo- 4 people liked this[O]

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.


What I don’t get they see Ridge 24/7 Taylor lives not far away ..they do family gatherings ….steffy and Tom are adults time to lay back …they are ruining the show with this ancient stuff show needs new stuff not older characters rewind yet again…boreing been done …rewash…there lucky now both parents are seen daily as it is..

Taylor needs to pay for her crap. She never has been made to pay. Someone mentioned that Taylor always pays, and they sited Phoebe dying. Taylor did not pay, Phoebe paid for Taylor's nonsense. Taylor deserves to be humiliated and lose Ridge at the altar again. She did not deserve it the other times, but this time she earned it. I hope we get our happy ending next week. It does not matter if Brooke ends up with Ridge or not, just as long as Taylor and her 2 brats pay a heavy price for the damage they have caused this whole year.

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BellaSole, Beverly Hills, California, 11/16/2022, 11:20AM (538 days ago) @matisse

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.


What I don’t get they see Ridge 24/7 Taylor lives not far away ..they do family gatherings ….steffy and Tom are adults time to lay back …they are ruining the show with this ancient stuff show needs new stuff not older characters rewind yet again…boreing been done …rewash…there lucky now both parents are seen daily as it is..


Taylor needs to pay for her crap. She never has been made to pay. Someone mentioned that Taylor always pays, and they sited Phoebe dying. Taylor did not pay, Phoebe paid for Taylor's nonsense. Taylor deserves to be humiliated and lose Ridge at the altar again. She did not deserve it the other times, but this time she earned it. I hope we get our happy ending next week. It does not matter if Brooke ends up with Ridge or not, just as long as Taylor and her 2 brats pay a heavy price for the damage they have caused this whole year.

I would hate the FauxForresters a little less if they had to pay a heavy price for this.

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matisse, 11/16/2022, 5:16AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 2 people liked this

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

No, they were not. Tom was 17 and the twins were 15. They were not young teens at all. But, reading your post I see you get it that RIDGE went chasing after Brooke, and not the other way around. In fact, Brooke told him to go home, back to Taylor, she did not want him anymore. So, I am glad you pointed that out, because the brats have no reason to be blaming Brooke at all. They should blame their dad if that is what they are mad about. They should be hating on him, not Brooke. Or better yet, their mother should tell them exactly why their dad left her back then, for cheating on him while they were married, for lying to him for 15 years about it, for plotting and going along with his mother trying to trash Brooke all the time, for things both those women, had done themselves and HID. Taylor could have stopped all this nonsense years ago if she had just told her kids why their dad no longer wanted to be with her, and felt he never even knew who she was, the whole time they were married, because she cheated on him, and lied to him, so easily.

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BBfanforever, 11/16/2022, 6:31AM (538 days ago) @takerkid

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

It’s not only 2006 but Brooke actively busted their parents wedding with her horse and broke them up using RJ (threatening to leave the continent with the 5 years old) in 2009.
Then in 2011, if it wasn’t for Brooke existence, tridge would have reunited again

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BellaSole, Beverly Hills, California, 11/16/2022, 11:21AM (538 days ago) @BBfanforever

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

It’s not only 2006 but Brooke actively busted their parents wedding with her horse and broke them up using RJ (threatening to leave the continent with the 5 years old) in 2009.
Then in 2011, if it wasn’t for Brooke existence, tridge would have reunited again

Only to separate again.

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Viola, 11/16/2022, 7:16AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 3 people liked this[O]

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

Yes and they don't even know why... Also they blame Brooke for one thing only... For being Ridge's first choice. Their dad tried to work on the marriage with their mom despite his feelings for Brooke and he stopped when he realized that Taylor is not an angel. He said that he made many decisions based on the belief that she can do no wrong, but once he found out that it's not the case it changed the dynamic. He decided to put his happiness before his kids and Taylor's happiness, but who said that a parent is obligated to be unhappy for the sake of his children? Ridge was very active in the lives of his children, but they still guilt trip him because they are spoiled rotten. Why does even Thomas hate Brooke so much? He blames her for a relationship with his dad because in his mind his parents should stay together for him and Steffy... Does he even remember what he tried to do to Beth, Liam and Hope? Now that's destroying a family! In reality the Tridge mafia are the true villains and they are constantly projecting their own faults on Brooke and Hope.

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mscherry, 11/16/2022, 7:40AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- one person liked this

So when RJ comes home to stay and want HIS parents together he will be justified in doing worse then the tridge brats right?

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BellaSole, Beverly Hills, California, 11/16/2022, 11:23AM (538 days ago) @mscherry

So when RJ comes home to stay and want HIS parents together he will be justified in doing worse then the tridge brats right?

Looks that way, doesn't it?

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takerkid @, 11/16/2022, 2:49PM (537 days ago) @mscherry

We've already seen RJ do that before. Remember 2016 when Brooke was going to marry Bill? The fact that he was so milquetoast made him even more annoying than Steffy and Thomas.

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Riley, 11/16/2022, 8:51AM (538 days ago) @takerkid

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

They weren't in their "early teens" anymore when Ridge left Taylor, they were 16 and 18! The twins were going to boarding school in Europe, living their own lives, while Thomas was already a married man himself.
And if you think they deserve to be cut some slack, then why doesn't Brooke deserve the same thing when the show has clearly established that her tendency to fall in love with inappropriate men is rooted in her daddy issues caused by the trauma of Stephen completely abandoning her family when she was only 14.

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Mariposaa, 11/16/2022, 9:13AM (538 days ago) @takerkid

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

no sympathy for vile adult toddlers

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BeLieF2, 11/16/2022, 10:11AM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 2 people liked this

This may be true but instead of idolizing the father, why not hold him accountable? They don't know the whole true history of the triangle. Brooke and Ridge would have been together and those kids would have never even existed if it wasn't for their grandmother's constant interference. Brooke and Ridge have always been connected. He loves her point blank. Blaming Brooke is immature. Many people make the same mistake of blaming the wrong people because they see things differently from a child's perspective and carry those uninformed ill feelings into adulthood. It's sad that Douglas is more mature than Thomas and Steffy. Neither wants to admit that Ridge is in love and loves Brooke and he always will. Yes he was happy with their mom for short time but that time is gone and never will come again. Let it go!

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Liz @, 11/16/2022, 1:24PM (538 days ago) @takerkid- one person liked this

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

When everything went down, the children handled the divorce very well and did so for years. It wasn't until Taylor changed the narrative that the kids went from loving Brooke to hating her. So, no, I have no sympathy for three hateful individuals.

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Lizzy54 @, Austria, 11/16/2022, 1:28PM (538 days ago) @Liz- one person liked this

And the children were no kids anymore when Ridge left Taylor to be with Brooke...Tom was even married to Gaby and his sisters are only a year younger, so he was at least 18 and they were 17...?

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Liz @, 11/16/2022, 1:32PM (538 days ago) @Lizzy54- 2 people liked this

And the children were no kids anymore when Ridge left Taylor to be with Brooke...Tom was even married to Gaby and his sisters are only a year younger, so he was at least 18 and they were 17...?

All I can say is that Taylor, Steffy and Thomas are as messed up as they can be and it is all on them. Add to that, their lack of ability to hold themselves accountable or responsible for anything that goes wrong in their lives. Blame others is their family mantra.

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Tiqui1999 @, 11/16/2022, 1:40PM (538 days ago) @takerkid- one person liked this

Steffy and Thomas have been pretty determined so see their parents reunited and pretty biting towards Brooke. I don't think there's an appreciation for their perspective. They were young teenagers when their parents got back together after Taylor's second resurrection and then all of a sudden it was all blown up again. Ridge left their family to go chasing after Brooke. That leaves an impression on a child even if they're in their early teens. It's no wonder they despise Brooke or that want their family reunited.

I think there should be no "appreciation" for their revisionist perspective.

I urge the Tridge Mafia to grow the hell up REGARDLESS of what they think happened in history.

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Shawnee000, 11/16/2022, 1:49PM (538 days ago) @takerkid- one person liked this

By the time Taylor came back from the dead the second time Brooke and Ridge were married, raising the two demons, Phoebe and Hope and they had RJ! Thomas and the girls were all old enough to understand the situation. It wasn’t Brooke’s fault that everyone believed Taylor to be dead and it certainly wasn’t her fault that their father moved on with her. Yes it was a terrible situation but none of it was on Brooke. I am so tired of it always being Brooke’s fault when RIDGE makes a choice. Maybe their anger should be directed at their father… Nobody holds a weapon on him and forces him to do anything he does what he wants. Case in point the situation they are all in right now… Yes Thomas perpetrated it and Ridge believed it that doesn’t put it on Taylor. She’s just dumb enough to believe Ridge actually chose her because he truly wants her and loves her… That part of it is on her but it’s her own cross to bear. It certainly isn’t Taylor‘s fault though that ridge jumped the gun, annulled his marriage to Brooke and went running off to her. That is on RIDGE!
I am beyond tired of seeing team Brooke or team Taylor… Brooke isn’t wrong when Ridge chooses her and Taylor isn’t wrong when Ridge chooses her… RIDGE is the problem point blank. The women are both just collateral damage of his disgustingly big ego. And they are fools to continue to enable his disgusting behavior. Yes Taylor has been throwing herself at him left and right since she’s been back and I question whether or not this woman should have a license to practice medicine as goofy as she is but inevitably no matter what she’s done Ridge is the one who made the final decision. Just like Ridge was the one to make the decision all the times in the past when he put Brooke first yet he comes out smelling like a rose and one or the other of the women is deemed the bad guy.

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GracieGirl, 11/16/2022, 2:02PM (538 days ago) @takerkid- 2 people liked this

If I were Steffy and Thomas I would be more upset with a mother who stays away because she can’t handle the situation with her ex. Who does that?

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Juliah, 11/16/2022, 2:49PM (537 days ago) @takerkid- one person liked this

First of all, they should grow up. Lots of kids’ parents get divorced. Second, they should blame their father. They’re pathetic and as far from “good people” as they can be. Multiple crimes committed by Taylor and her spawn.

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