Guiding Light - MESSAGE BOARDS

Yes, Olivia has been living with this in her mind for a long time. She has now got to live in the present, and not in the past. Jeffrey, has done and said everything he can to her. He has said he is sorry she had to go through everything alone. He is being kind to their daughter. Avaa, has moved on, so Olivia has to give up this bad memory and move on too. All that beauty, and no one to love her,except Delonjo... Awww

i really didn't like the whole storyline with the rape thing. Rape is such a serious topic that it was kind of uncool that they even brought it up and then dismissed it like it was nothing. personally i don't think it was rape, i mean yea she wasn't 18, but did he know that? (i don't remember exactly - but i don't think he knew). i mean obvously a woman wouldn't fall for her rapist. but i think the writers should have put more thought into it before they started throwing the term rape around. the writers did such a great job with Reva's cancer storyline - they should have done the same thing with Olivia's rape storyline. a lot of people get inspiration from the show but it wasn't very inspirational if they call it rape - and then make it seem like no big deal! A woman needs to know that being raped is not her fault and that a man should pay if he does rape her. and i really don't think this story conveyed that!

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I don't think all dthe posters feel that Jeffrey raped Oliva. Many do, I don't feel that wayh. The writers really started something with this storyline. they didn't know where to take it once it started out there. I feel that this was two teenagers playing with fire. Oliva, wanted a man, got drunk, as was Jeffrey. Things got out of hand, as they usually do when alcohol is involved. Jeffrey, goes away and Olivia has a baby. Cut and dry. I feel the writers have ended this rape story, by having Olivia admit that night was more her fault then Jeffreys. There are many women that have gotten into this kind of mess when alcohol was thrown into the mix. So be it! Oliiva has carried the guilt with her all these years, do now she needs to move on, as I feel she has with this past. If Jefrey had raped her, why would she wnat him so badly now, 20 some years later.

I don't believe it was rape, I just believe Olivia is bitter because she didn't have a lot of options when she was younger and lost her mother and daughter.

Jeffrey exhibits a history of taking advantage of women. What about the night he impersonated Richard in San Cristobel and bedded Cassie? When Richard?? visited Cassie right after he died? When a sixteen year old girl is drunk and passed out? Romance or rape? You tell me! I realize with the Jammie sl, the writers went down the creepy road and haven't managed to find their way back yet, but this is like taking advantage of our common sense because they saw some type of chemistry between the pair. They made a mistake, they should not have tried to smooth it over by implying romance. Maybe sometime down the road after these two hashed it out, they could be friends, but romance?

It was rape. He was older and should have known better! Plain & simple. So what she flirted, got drunk, he's the responsible one there. Where was his brain? I can't explain for the life of me why she would want him except, she sees that he's a different person now. Or, that she forgives him for that part of her life. Not to mention, they have a daughter together. Anyway, the writers goofed on this one, but he did rape her.

You are beating a dead horse! When this night happened Jeffrey was 18, not much older than Olivia. I think they were both drunken teenagers who made a mistake.

No, Olivia was not raped. In the playbacks , it was very clear that when she went to that party, Jeffrey was there, and he thought she was older, and a guest of someone. They both were drinking heavily, and she was a consenting woman with a romantic man. Jeffrey never knew that the one night stand had led to pregnancy. I don't call that rape.

Olivia sure has said it was rape!! And now she wants him Maybe it was not rape after all.But NO is NO and thats that.Drunk or not still no means no!!

In the playback of the show, Olivia did not say, "No", to Jeffrey. I never understood why she said it was rape. When she was remembering everything, she realized that she was only making herself believe that, because of being pregnant and having to give her baby up for adoption. In the playbacks of the show, it only showed her and Jeffrey, making love. I agree with you..No is No. But, honestly, in every aspect of that playback, they both were consenting.

Seeing how Oliva is now with jumping in the bed with a lot of guys she dates makes me wonder if she wasn't this way as a teen. I can't really answer this question due to I wasn't watching the show back then, however going by her actions now I would say I don't think it was.