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Nooooo! I don't care how big of a villain he plays he does not deserve that. ETA: maybe he's the villain holding Lucky hostage

Or Sonny is right (gag🤢) and Kristina is stronger than Alexis thinks.

US women are being jailed for having miscarriages The increasing risk of criminal charges for women who experience miscariages El Salvador: woman sentenced to 30 years in prison after miscarriage

"Drew Q For You" Worst. Campaign Slogan. Ever. Also Drew is an idiot. "I want to thank my best supporter Willow Corinthos" Does he think that everyone adores the Corinthos name and the mob connection that comes with it? Say "my niece Willow" if you have to mention her, which you don't. There is an election in 2 months -- is there even time for a special election before then? Why not just appoint someone for the interim? Did they get rid of Michael Easton to afford Eva LR's salary? Terrible bargain. Olivia talking to Dante -- there was a course yesterday on CBT for PTSD. I didn't know that Olivia attended but she learned the stuff well. Go Dante, speak truth to Carly. Curtis to Portia: "Oh, that's right, you can't tell me." Hey Curtis, didn't you break up with Jordan because she wouldn't tell you confidential police stuff?Z Way to have that double standard. Cates charging Kristina with manslaughter is ridiculous but sadly I'm just waiting to hear that this is a 'ripped from the headlines' charge. I agree, it's all that. But as the mother of a neurodiverse child with learning difficulties who needed a lot of support, it drives me crazy every time Molly, who got an easy ride genetically, accuses everyone of coddling Kristina.

Just speculating here but while she most likely would not be on the donation list maybe a direct live donation is possible. I remember that a few years ago actor Michael Healey donated to someone he had never met. I'm sorry to hear about your friend. It feels unfair because prostate cancer can be very slow moving; some people die of other causes before the prostate cancer progresses enough to be a risk.

I never understood why Laura and Kevin didn't have a nanny for Ace. (Why are they still calling him Ace?) If nouveau riche Carly has multiple nannies for her kids, the grandson of the sixtysomething mayor and a psychiatrist certainly should. RIP Jagger Cates, you had so much potential. Children often perceive that a parent favours another child, often with incomplete understanding. A boy resets his parent spending two hours a night helping his brother do homework when he himself is left to do it alone, not realizing that the brother has learning issues and can't do the homework alone. Laura gives Nik too much slack but it's because she feels guilty because she abandoned him to the Cassadines when he was young (growing up there was no picnic). Molly doesn't realize that all her life she's been told that she's the smart one, the stable on, the one who has her head screwed on straight and can be trusted while Kristina has always been told that she's the flake, the screw-up, the one you can't count on because she's so falible. Molly may think that everyone coddles Kristina but I don't envy Kristina at all.

In other words, they suck at parenting after the initial donation

NLG was hilarious today with the facial expressions as Kristina was saying that it was her baby. St. Lucky saving humanitarians around the world. St. Jasus saving Carly so Joss and Donna can have their mother. Am I supposed to be impressed that they sacrifice their children's best interests for other people?

Molly is suffering (and insufferable) but she has TJ, Jordan and the whole Ashford family to support her as well as Ric. Kristina has Alexis now that Blaze is gone, and is dealing with her physical wounds as @Bringonthedrama pointed out as well as her emotional ones. Molly is out jogging and getting sympathy from random passersby. If I were going to fanwank, Molly's issues are old and deep, including seeing Kristina have her father around while Ric was MIA, and all those issues are coming forth now

The show treats Carly like a saint, here she is volunteering to be a donor. Why didn't she volunteer years ago after Joss recovered if she was so grateful and so aware of the need? IIRC, Dante was afraid of murdering Lulu and the kids in a PTSD fugue. That's a good reason for leaving and getting treatment elsewhere. I there a rule that Dex needs to be shirtless every X episodes? Cause it's not really making me see him as a real boy more.

I'd forgotten about that. Maybe Kristina wasn't so wrong after all about the possibility of Molly and TJ breaking up in the future. Certainly it's easy to fanwank about the lack of communication and adaptation in their relationship.

That's a good point. The way TJ and Molly especially kept saying 'my baby', it was like the baby was an object rather than a living being. To TJ and Molly, it always has been all about them. It was about Molly's need to have a children after she was told that she couldn't carry one, and about TJ's need to control every aspect of the situation. They may have been preparing for a baby with a nursery but they weren't bonding with it. If anyone was singing to the baby and reading her stories, it wasn't Molly or TJ. Jordan's 100% blind support of her son isn't making anything better. I understand why Molly might have wanted to use Kristina's egg -- that way she would have a biological connection to the baby as TJ has as well as a clear medical history. I think they should just have taken the egg and used another surrogate. I agree that this was supposed to be "their" moment and they resent anyone taking that away. More evidence that they are too immature to be parents. Also agreed about Molly's feelings and that she hasn't worked through any of them. Not surprising for someone who could always do and have whatever she wanted if she just worked hard enough. Being confronted by something that she has no control over, she's struggling to paper over the cracks and make everything as perfect as she demands it to be. Another one who will need therapy is Kristina. She's always been the family screw-up, the one who leads with her emotions and they get her in trouble time and time again. (I've been thinking of Kristina as having ADHD because it explains much.) She offered to be Molly's surrogate out of love but she screwed it up, the ultimate screw up. Kristina is going to hate herself even more now with the death of that baby that she loved and her sister hating her. Of the four young people in this story, Blaze is the only one who was self-aware enough to know that she should not be a parent right now.

I find this whole fighting over the baby, a dead baby, to be deeply unpleasant to watch. i wish that it were all over. I don't see how Molly and Kristina can be close after this. Piss poor plotting. I understand why Alexis didn't say anything. She was hoping to talk Kristina out of filing the papers when she saw how Molly and TJ loved the child. To tell Molly much less TJ about the papers would only have caused a reaction on their part that would have make Kristina fight even harder to keep the baby. Jordan is all about the baby being TJ's biological child. To her it doesn't matter at all that it is Kristina's biological child too. They brought Ric back for this???? What a waste. Insensitive is something that Kristina is known for. But it seems to me that some of Molly's anger at Kristina is because Kristina can carry a baby and Molly can't. TJ all along but Molly also seem more to see Kristina as a vending machine, pop in TJ's sperm and Molly and TJs baby comes out. They touched on that. The doctor told her that her eggs would most likely not be viable. For plot's sake.

I thought that it was rather interesting. For everyone else, they were mourning the idea of the baby and what she would be like and how she would grow up. For Kristina, it was an actual being, something that would react to the foods that she ate and kick her when she wanted to be rocked. That shared her body and affected her life.* *When I was pregnant, I had hypoglycemia and fainting spell.s After the baby was born, baby had hypoglycemia and I have been off the hook ever since. For all that they considered the baby theirs, Kristina was closer to the actual baby than either Molly or TJ.

Naming the baby Irene, a person neither TJ nor Molly ever met, whom neither is biologically related to, but who is treated like a saint by the Ashford family members who knew her, reinforces to me the idea that TJ and Molly were and are living in a fantasy about the baby. I'm sure that they would have put her down for the most prestigious preschool but did they think about childcare beyond Molly taking some time off work? (I know a couple who had 2 children while she was a medial resident like TJ and he was a graduate student. They managed because they alternated taking a year off to take care of the kids.) Ric's tears, all these people at the funeral overwhelmed by grief. Okay, they can feel sad that a baby died but the only ones who I think should have real grief are Kristina, Molly, TJ Jordan and Alexis. And Willow who had all her old feeings brought up. Ric wouldn't even have come if Alexis hadn't called him. Tracy seems to be the only one working at Deception who has any awareness of marketing or business. Maxie is getting there but she's still too willing to accept what people tell her. Lois just seems to be a waste of time, although not as much as Natalia. I love your whole post. To address this issue: they had Kristina afraid that Molly and TJ would break up and TJ would take sole custody of the baby because Kristina would have given up custody and so TJ would be the sole biological parent. Molly may have adopted the baby but if TJ fought her for custody, it's likely that he would win. He would let Molly see the baby but he and his family would be raising it. Didn't Ric try to take Molly away from Alexis? Kristina said that she wanted the baby to be raised by the Davis coven. It's a stupid plot point but I have no time for TJ or Molly any more. They treated Kristina like she was an vending machine producing a baby for them, a baby the was all theirs and that they had every right to. "You're the reason she's dead." Molly, Kristina is also the reason she was alive. The baby is dead; mourn and move on. This seem par for the course for TJ. He's this far away from a diagnosis or narcissism. Is everyone in this story unhinged?

I hope that Lucky hasn't been drinking because Lulu needs his liver in good shape. Still, it's a twist that I didn't expect. IIRC, Molly and TJ signed a legal document about their domestic partnership so I guess technically Jordan is Molly's 'mother-in-law'.

. She had a caesarian section a couple (?) of days ago (considered major surgery). Seeing her in a wheelchair instead of lying down makes me hurt. (A caesarian is considered major surgery I was told after I had mine.) I like the idea of Wagger being in a blow-it-up whodunnit. The character has been completely destroyed. I think that you earlier said something about both of them being so focused on their careers that they haven't really worked out how to connect in a relationship. That's what it looks like to me, that they take a position and then sometimes they compromise and sometimes they don't and then the other partner has to give in. They have no real relationship skills, the cracks are all papered over, and they have no idea they haven't a clue because they are too busy telling themselves how much better they are than Kristina is.

TJ to Molly: "You and your mom and Sam must be feeling awful about that." Not one word about how Kristina, just discharged from the hospital and grieving, must feel Molly apologies to TJ (🤬) and says that she understands why Kristina could have attacked Ava because she was that angry herself. Note that Molly stepped beyond her role as an ADA to confront Ava and attack her but no grace for Kristina from her. Both TJ and Molly are garbage people and Molly deserves him. Molly: "My office was concerned about a conflict of interest." Really? Becau what I saw on the screen was Alexis concerned, not her office. Sam, at home in jeans and 3" stiletto heels. That always makes me laugh on soap operas. I'm only too glad to kick off my shoes when i get home much less wear anything that uncomfortable. I know that in the 50s and 60s that what housewives wore so maybe Sam has found her niche. Why are judges always called "honourable?" This judge has been on the show before and is the last person to be called honourable. Cates has apparently had brain cells removed to not file the paperwork. Nina is a better friend than Ava deserves. At least Ava came clean to her. That was the only balance about the fall that we had today. I still think they need to sue Carly for flimsy windows. Laura is lucky to have Kevin. Rocco: "I still have pictures of Mom so I don't forget what she looks like." I hope those old pictures are of the new recast. A tragic case that reinforced the "stranger danger' days when in reality children are more likely to be abused by a family friend than a stranger. I did a search to remind myself of the details but so much came up about children killed by parents, adoptive parents and foster parents that I couldn't get to it. I agree that James should be telling his mother or caregiver where he is going -- he was wrong there. I think that it's not such a big deal that James was out without adult supervision at 9, only that he didn't tell anyone where he was going.

Sasha told Cody and Willow told Nina. And now James overhead but he's as bored by it as I am. I've seen enough bad parenting that I won't object if a child questions a parent's decision. Yes, James was off unsupervised but isn't he 9? I'm of the generation that when 9 years old we were free to roam around the neighbourhood as long as we showed up for lunch (or phoned in).

Why is Jordan having that discussion with Molly? It crosses all sorts of professional and personal boundaries. It seems to me that far from breaking up with TJ, Molly is getting set to blame everything on Kristina. Blaming Kristina for being too rash and impulsive is rich from the woman who confronted Ava about the baby. Good to see Teri and Brad again. Hopefully more of Brad and more of the hospital. But omg, this show is going backwards. I liked Tracy explaining to Violet about riding and both of them in proper helmets. Alexis actually got something to do that wasn't a make-work project. I'm still rooting for Jagger although I know that it's a hopeless cause. Dante was sweet with Kristina today Fixed that for you. Why is the discussion of James more interesting than today's episode? My mother had studied classics so she would say "Quodniam nominor Leo" but it did not make me want to behave. As an adult I worked at a family clinic and it always seemed to me that explaining things to a child got better results. Both James and Mac did something immature and wrong but only James was punished. Maxie also was wrong but again, minimal punishment.

This. I think Donna should have been punished because what she did was selfish and she knew that it was wrong. I think that James should have some consequences but I understand that what he did was out of frustration that he was not allowed to see an important person in his life and there was no good explanation for it, and worse, no discussion or compromise. Mac had all the power to indulge his whim, and James had none. Curiously I saw the following tweet the day the show aired. I agree.

It has to be Diane. Only she is that good. <eyeroll>

It's bad enough that every story ends with "Sonny/Carly/Jason win" but does St. Jasus have to find the pharmacist this fast? Can't there be even a little suspense? Jason looked like a little bird confronting a big turkey. Of course Molly blames Kristin. So does TJ. I hated the pile-on when it was Nina, I'm not any happier now. Why doesn't someone hook TJ? Why doesn't Sonny sic Jason on him? Cates is going down. Lulu is another cliff-hanger. Same old writers, same old stories.

Unfortunately the trajectory for Natalia is Brilliant CFO, Sonny's bedmate and when that's over, Carly's BFF. Working at Kristina's youth centre would help redeem the character but what a rotten thing to do to those poor kids. They're already dealing with enough.

When Natalia outed Blaze and the fact that she had hid her sexuality, I think Deception lost a lost of money from their association with her. Which is why it makes no sense to welcome Natalia to the company especially in such a high position as CFO even if she does come with Sonny's money Willow has consistently needed therapy since she came on the show. And she'll not get it because Michael's chosen one must be perfect.