I have watched soaps since before kindergarten. My mother's husband and I would watch General Hospital everyday...it was our only connection. I was lucky enough to see L&L the first time around. I remember Greg and Jenny...Robert and Holly...Duke and Anna...Frisco and Felicia...Max and Gabrielle...Jesse and Angie...Noah and Julia...the list goes on and on. Each time...when one half of the couple left...I thought I would never recover. Within a few weeks...I was over them and on to the next couple.

Those couples, to me, were "fairytale" couples. The characters were heroic, adventurous, or just plain "goody-goody." They were totally inaccessible because they were not realistic. They were always on some sort of mission...thrown together in some unbelievable situations...surviving all sorts of circumstances. Simply put...they were fun to watch. But, I never viewed them as anything more than entertainment for one hour of the day.

TnT...they were different. I'm not going to talk about TnR or TnB...but having watched them...I do have a better appreciation for TnT. Neither Todd nor Téa are perfect people. They are perfectly FLAWED. They aren't all good or all bad...they're human. When I first saw them onscreen together, I fell in love. There was that instant chemistry...that instant spark...that I never saw with the "supercouples" of the past. I am reminded of a line from "As Good As it Gets." Jack Nicholson says to Helen Hunt, "You make me want to be a better man." That's what I have always thought Téa did for Todd and vice versa...Todd was good for Téa. They made each other "feel" with their whole beings...with their souls. They reached the darkest parts of each other.

When I think of TnT...I sometimes have to remind myself that they are a fictional couple. Their relationship...all of the bumps...all of the bruises of love...all of the happiness...trust...honesty...reminds me of something "real." In other words, real relationships are more like TnT...bumpy...tumultuous...than the "supercouples" of yesterday.

TnT have given me hope. They restored my faith in TRUE LOVE...EVER LASTING LOVE. I read this book once and one of the last lines is "I said a from-the-solar-plexus I love you." I didn't understand what that meant until I saw TnT. I never thought it was possible to love someone that much...until TnT. They have touched a part of me...that part who never believed in "real love." They have given me hope that there is someone out there who can and will love me with everything that they are.