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After reading all the comments about Sami and how she is handling or mishandling this missing situation, I thought I would ask a question to all poster::
How would YOU react to Johnny’s disappearance if you were Sami? Try to keep in mind all she has gone though thiese past few year.
I think that it is natural for a person to start blaming others for her misery.
Also very optimistic (which Sami is certainly not, I’ve never seen anyone as pesimistic as she is) so, although I would have a lot of turmoil inside, I don’t think I’d show much outward reaction until I get word that something really bad has happened. Right now, he could just be lost somewhere but safe. I’m sure I’d entertain much worse things happening but would dwell on the "lost but safe" thoughts.
I am 100% certain that no matter what had happened to my child, including rape, torture, dismemberment, or whatever horible thing you could imagine happening to a child, I would still not react like Sami has.
The most horrible dream I’ve ever had was of my son (who was a teen at the time) drowning while trying to reach my hand for me to save him but couldn’t quite reach and he was washed out to sea in a rip tide. I was so sick to my stomach when I woke up and it took me a long, long time to get over that.
So, I know how devistated a parent would be but I just can’t see myself carrying on like that. As for blame, I can’t say, it would depend on the circumstances. In Sami’s case, certainly not, at least outwardly.
Sami is a very different person than most of us, so it would be hard to imagine if I were Sami , but I do know that I would not react as she is doing, only because I would think of my other kids ( like Will )I would try to be strong for him because he is hurting as much as she is, but I must say that this is normal for Sami , she has always gone off the handle when things go wrong. so its hard to say if I were her would I handle it differently, I think I would, but I sort of understand that this is how Sami always handle problems , by being very highstrung, so she is handling this as I would expect SHE would.
be threatening my parents, particularly in light of the litany of evil deeds Sami has done. When she gets around to apologizing, it is rarely sincere, but only done because she got caught.
past, rape, being on death row, losing a child (Grace wasn’t hers but she thought she was), Sydnapping, and on and on, especially with her children, given who one of the father’s of her kids is, and the grandfather, etc., WHY would she even stay in Salem??? A normal person would say to themselves, ‘I want to put all of this crap behind me and move on with my and my children’s lives…I’m outta here!’
Nope, I would not act like ol’ Sami does (over and over and over again). I’d be taking a very proactive, and positive move forward to make a better life for my children and myself if I were her, (Rafe would follow the family anywhere).
Granted this is Sami’s show so the character can’t actually move and leave town, but she (Sami) could move in her mind-set and grow the hell up!
yelling for Johnny! I would have been moving Heaven and Earth to find my son, that is number one. Secondly I wouldn’t be yelling and blaming everyone else for him missing. She is acting as if Marlena and John and Rafe and whoever else planned this and wanted Johnny to go missing. Also I would be putting all my energy and efforts into finding Johnny, not blaming the entire world of him going missing. And on top of that I wouldn’t keep thinking the worst. What mother would sit there and say well he is dead or he could be dead or anything like that. NO MOTHER would allow herself to go there unless she was absolutely forced by seeing his lifeless body, and even then they would probably go into denial. This storyline is so pathetic and ridiculous! Yeah I would yell and scream at my mother when my son is gone missing. Ummm………no I would try to cling to every support I had and do everything I humanly could to find my son. Absolutely absurd. This is the very reason why Days is not one of the top soaps like it was in the 80s. Because the storylines are so pathetic and so far fetched it’s even laughable. If they were going to do a missing child storyline, they should at least make it realistic and how a real mother might actually feel and act! Sorry but the way Sami is being is NOT how a real mother would act. And on top of that she was finally becoming a real adult independent woman who takes care of her business and doesn’t make everyone around her pay for her own stupidity! That’s out the window. Thank goodness for the fast forward button. Now I’ll only watch Jennifer and Daniel and if she choses Jack, that will be the end of watching Days for me!
I can honestly see how she would lash out at Marlena. Her son is kidnapped and she’s not there to help her through it. She’s with John. And, knowing Sami’s history there, it would strike a nerve with me. The one thing I can’t imagine myself doing is blaming Rafe. He’s been nothing but supportive and wonderful. I would be frantic and upset and all that though. I don’t think she’s acting too out of character.
Sami is just out of control, I can’t believe how she’s yelling at rafe like she is. That poor guy. His eyes were so sad. And then she’s not blaming the one man who is responsible for him missing!!!!! no she’s not going to yell at ej, she’s going to sleep with the bastard!!! I say they deserve each other!!!
I don’t have any children of my own but I was a big part of a cousin’s granddaughter (he was older than me so a huge age difference). Her mother wasn’t around, grandma left and he adopted her so I was the female influence in her life, took her on vacations and spent at least 1 weekend a month at her house. When she was 6 I took her to Disney and we were watching one of the shows at Cinderella’s castle. She was standing next to me and after the show I turned and she was gone. I was in a state of panic, on the inside and was calling for her as I was walking and looking. In my mind I was planning what I had to do. Notify someone, get the park to lock the gates and have everyone search. I finally saw her running back to me and after a hug she got a what for because she took off chasing some balloons they set loose.
Everyones always told me I look and act so calm cool and collected in a crisis but they don’t know what my insides are going through.
I see Sami blaming everyone else for her bing there is typical Sami as she’s never taken responsibility for her own actions and is always looking for somoene to blame when something negative happens.
Does anyone remember when Ciara and Theo were missing? Do you remember how Hope and Lexie reacted? I recall Hope blaming Bo. I also remember Lexie blaming Ciara. of course it wasn’t as ranting and raving, but they did turn on the ones they love.
Given all that Sami has been through with her kids, Sydney kidnapping, Johnny’s cancer, Grace dying fake Rafe, she is emotional on empty. I also think that it is her MO to blame someone when things go wrong. Oftenitis the person you are closest to. I am not agree with her, but I do think that it is how Sami would react.
When things go wrong especailly concerning a child, many times parents lash out at one another cause they are just looking for someone to blame. That is what drove Bo and Hope apart when Zack died and when Ciara was missing. I just think that it is natural.
until it happens to you, none of us know how we would react. We are, as I see it, reacting to the character’s history and not to her situation. I am so very protective of my kids and especially my grandkids, I honestly don’t know what I would do if anything this should ever happen to any one of them, including my grown children. I don’t think anyone can predict what they would or would not do, say or feel until something like this hits home.
Sami can dish it but she can’t take it. 
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