Regardless of how Hope feels about marrying now, Thomas asking Paris to marry him is much too soon. It has been only a couple of months since he proposed to Hope and he has been obsessed with her for many years. Paris is his rebound. Everyone knows you don’t marry your rebound. She should have enough sense to know that but she probably figures that is the only way she will get married and be part of that world, much like Poppy is doing with Bill. They are going to be miserable and they will make Douglas miserable, too.

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Cooper July 6, 2024, 10:06pm 2

By that standard, then Thomas is also Hope’s rebound. She was certainly focused on Liam for at least as long as Thomas was focused on her. She started out her interest in Thomas by having sexual fantasies about him, the reality of which seem to be a large part of why she believes Thomas couldn’t possibly be over her, considering how much she mentions their “passion,” which is just code for sex. But she doesn’t want a commitment not so much because she sees Thomas as a rebound—a relationship that was bound to end from the beginning— but as a relationship that should stay in stasis for as long as she needs it stay there, regardless of what Thomas says he wants or needs from the relationship.

As for Paris, she’s shown an interest in Carter and Zende, one of whom is an honorary Forrester and one of whom gets less general respect from the family than the honorary Forrester. Oh, and she had a crush on Finn. But it’s not like any of them had the power or riches that Bill has. And, of course, Paris already has a pretty good job at FC of her own. So I guess I’m not seeing the correlation between Poppy and Paris you’re attempting to make—Paris doesn’t seem to want to be lady of the manor all that much, and she has a job where she already likely makes a great deal more than Poppy does, who, last we knew, was selling her art/jewelry at flea markets to make a living.

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I agree. None of these rebound relationships end well. Paris sounds like a fool considering the last time she was in LA she was doing the same thing with Carter. This time she may end up getting the guy to say “I do” but I don’t think he will ever love her the way he loves Hope.

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So, let’s go back to doormat Thomas and Hope—let Thomas continue with his begging to marry him, that’s a good look on him.

He may never love anyone the way he loved Hope. Let’s pray that has grown enough to realize that he loved Hope delusionally. She was never the person he made her out to be in his mind. Just like Liam, Thomas idolized Hope from decades before because everyone always placed her high on the morality scale, even as she was a sinner like the rest of them.
Hopefully Thomas has realized that the high moral characteristics he attributed to Hope flew out the window the moment she held his hands in the design office. From that point forward, she was an emotional adulteress who moved on to a physical adulteress outside the coliseum in Rome.

We love everyone differently as we grow and mature in life. Paris could be the beginning of a more mature love relationship

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Cooper July 7, 2024, 12:13am 6

And even if things fizzle with Paris, that does not mean, as Hope assumes it does, that Thomas will run back to her. If she still wants the relationship they had, as opposed to a grown-up relationship with some parity and commitment on both sides, then they still wouldn’t want the same things, and Thomas would still want to move on.

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Or maybe Thomas could stop asking Hope to marry him and take time to evaluate his life and current relationships before jumping into marriage

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Cooper July 7, 2024, 12:26am 8

And maybe Hope could look around for a single man instead of fantasizing about a married one and go take an aspirin the next time she supposedly has a headache. Let’s not pretend Thomas is the immature one here.

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Maybe Hope could stop telling Thomas not to marry Paris…she is the one that keeps seeking him out now…
It must be very hard for her right now.,Liam doesn’t want her and Thomas doesn’t want her, and as sad as I think it is, I don’t think Finn will want her either…

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In my opinion this is not a mature love. Something is going on with Thomas. It’s perfectly fine to want marriage and kids, but I don’t think being this desperate to have it is mature. He’s reminding me of Liam, doesn’t matter who he is married to just as long as he’s married.

Tharis may end up getting married and having a long marriage. I don’t think he will have the passion and deep love for her that he had for Hope. Paris is good on paper; beautiful, wants the same things, but that spark isn’t there.

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I agree she should stop telling him not to get married.

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I think there is a spark there, but I agree he probably will never have the deep love he had for Hope…but sometimes I think that love and respect is all that is needed…
Hope was hard work for him…sex at her snapping her fingers, being seen together at her say so, knowing just how much he did feel for her, she still just wanted what she wanted.,that is not enough for anyone…

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Love and respect are good. I think the passionate, deep love on soaps is far more interesting to watch though.

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Yes it is, but I guess I am pleased I don’t live that way…how tiring and how much work would be done, and I don’t have enough people I could have palmed the kids off to…lolol

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I agree! I’m all for a drama free real life lol

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AnnieB July 7, 2024, 3:46am 16 Lynn1216:

I think the passionate, deep love on soaps is far more interesting to watch though.

Well, maybe not Eric & Donna or Ridge & Brooke. Or RJ & Luna, if we are to believe they have a deep love. lol

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Yeah I have never really been interested in them as couples. I really liked Eric with Quinn, and Brooke with Nick.

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AnnieB July 7, 2024, 3:51am 18

Agree, they were much more interesting.

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Mitchell111:

Hope was hard work for him…sex at her snapping her fingers, being seen together at her say so, knowing just how much he did feel for her, she still just wanted what she wanted.,that is not enough for anyone…

See this is why I personally, will never see Thope as a deep love. To me it was an obsession from a man with some severe mental trauma/issues, and a “woman” using said man for whatever she needed, whether that be his child, her fashion line, or as her own personal s×x toy. Not to mention their cringworthy “chemistry”.

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I agree completely that Hope should stop asking/ begging Thomas not to marry Paris. I’m a Thope fan. I think they have amazing chemistry and I hope that they’re the endgame but she should honor what she told him when she kissed him on the cheek in the CEO office. Wish him well, coparent Douglas and let it play out. While I don’t think Thomas is in love with Paris, they’re engaged and that’s what Hope needs to accept.

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