"...Love the exception"?

Love is never the exception. Daytime soaps seem to capitalize on that. It is just depressing watching soap operas slowly build to a "once-in-a-lifetime relationship"...like each new bud of romance will blossom into a rose that will persevere through any tribulation. But after the bloom, winter crushes all hope for a true romance you can count on. I swear you finally get a hook-up and the writers are trying to find a way to make it not work, to bring in a new interest or reignite an old flame. For example, you have John (mr. dark vampire) and Marty (formerly party marty but just plain marty right now with memory) they finally are able to be intimate. Marty has finally let go of her weird connection to a guy that raped her and committed to John. John finally left Blair. But wait. Now John is on a new case. We all now how distracted John gets on cases. And poor Marty isn't the victim this time, and we all know that John tends to fall for the D.I.D. (sorry not Jessica with dissociative identity disorder, I am talking about the damsel in distress--Natalie).

Wait! Natalie? Not poor red-head girl who grew up in a trailer park! She is happily married. She has Jared. Hang on. Sorry, Jared is John's new suspect in the stalker case. Maybe we might have a love confusion thing in the future.

Now I am not saying we are going to have to watch Natalie and John try to make something of a pool game that happened forever ago. But I think the writers might go that way. Then we can have another on again off again couple. Lets re-cap, we have Todd and Blair (which will eventually get back together), Bo and Nora, Viki and Clint, why not add Natalie and John? 

Then we have my total descendants that follow the same trajectory. There are no life long couples, in daytime soaps, the best you can hope for is on and off again. Can you imagine if reality was like that, "oh he is my on and off again...don't touch"..? 

So a song plays "if nothing lasts forever then what makes love the exception?" well according to daytime TV love can spring forth, whither, and die. But it can also be manipulated for a later date to bring up ratings. So if you have recently lost someone, cheer up, he or she could be your on and off again making your life so much more dramatic and watchable.