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One might say that she did just that by accepting the ring from Thomas. He knew (because she told him) that she wasn't ready for anything more than that at the moment, yet he still proposed again, so if she had said yes I doubt he would have been willing to wait 5 years for the actual wedding. He would have started putting pressure on her for that immediately.

Can't argue with that!

I thought she made her position very clear from the start of the relationship, and she has also been very clear about not being ready for marriage. And you can have a family without being married. My parents didn't marry until I was twelve, but I never doubted that we were a family. It's honestly quite refreshing for B&B to have a character unwilling to rush into marriage for once. Usually they can hardly wait for the ink to dry on the divorce (or annulment) papers before they marry someone else.

For heaven's sake! Hope simply said that she didn't want to get married! They're acting like she committed a deadly sin. It's ridiculous. Talk about making a mountain out of a mole-hill.

That's easy. He could resign!

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Amen to that! Taylor's absence is glaring, and the lack of any explanation just makes it worse. Surely there could have been a way to keep Taylor on the show.

I'm completely Team Hope in this. She had made it clear that she wasn't ready to get married again, yet Thomas still proposed, again.... And when Hope stood firm in her decision Thomas whines to Steffy, and now she decides to get involved.... If Thomas isn't mature enough to respect Hope's clearly stated wish to not rush into another marriage then maybe he hasn't moved past his previous obsessive behaviour. I just hope that Hope doesn't allow herself to get bullied into accepting his proposal. She has done nothing wrong and I hope she makes that clear to Steffy, who by the way should worry more about her own marriage instead of butting into other people's business. In that respect she really is like her namesake.

It was out of character for Brooke in my opinion because Deacon was not the type she would get involved with. After she broke up with Dave in the early days she had been involved with Ridge, Eric, Connor, James, Grant and Thorne. Men who were very different from a lowlife scum like Deacon. I just never bought that Brooke would ever look twice at someone like Deacon, and that's without taking the whole Bridget situation into consideration. You think differently though, and that's fine.

I would have dropped the Deacon-story altogether. It did too much damage to the character of Brooke, and frankly it was out of character for her as well. Another plus is there would be no Hope.....

Dropping that story was really a monumental mistake. KKL and Winsor had even better chemistry than KKL and Ronn , and it would have opened up new storyline possibilities for constant underdog Thorne opposite Ridge.

Fixed!