Nicole on Monday

given their past and insecurities, I think Nicole is right to ask if EJ really loves her regardless of the circumstances.  They can be good for each other, but I was disappointed that during the election campaign they led each other to increase the level of dirt thrown at  Abe.  Maybe EJ will take her up on the offer and then she will say "OK lets stay here, together"

we saw in Nicole might have also been due to all the extreme closeups they had of her during the show. Of course she is a very beautiful woman, and I do think they might have done something different with her makeup, but I think her eyes looking bigger and our noticing a difference might have been because the camera was so close.

in that I think E.J. cares for Nicole a great deal more than he even realized himself.  However, I don’t think he will leave Salem for her, simply because, in his own words, losing Nicole was like losing the air he breathes, but losing Stefano would be like losing the ground from under him.  E.J. loves Nicole as much as E.J. knows how to love, but when did he realize that Nicole was important enough to make him see the many, many errors of his ways?  Was it when he threw her any Sydney out into the cold night when he thought Sydney was not his child?  Was it when he cheated on Nicole with Taylor?  Was it when he realized that faux Rafe, his and Stefano’s own creation, was responsible for the death of her mother?  I will always question how can she mean that much to him now, even though he may or may not believe that she is carrying his child?  He has to believe, even though we know better, that there’s always the slight chance that the baby is Rafe’s.  For now all he has is Nicole’s and Rafe’s insistence that the baby is Rafe’s, not E.J.’s.  So, why would he just pick up and leave Salem to be with Nicole now, especially since she is insisting that he must "raise" Rafe’s baby?  Sorry, I can’t see it.  E. J. is too glorified just to be a DiMera.  Ever since he was first summoned to Salem by Stefano to impregnate a Brady, he has tried to do exactly as Stefano wanted for fear of falling from his fatha’s graces.  His greed for not only equality with Stefano, but Stefano’s approval of him, along with the power, the wealth, the absolute fear their name alone instills in others, has always been THE MOST important thing in the world to E.J., IMO.   I don’t see him changing now unless something so huge, so dark and drastically demeaning for E.J. causes him to be rejected by Stefano, defeating E.J.’s desire to be exactly like him.  Until any woman can mean more to him than Stefano, no woman, including Nicole, will ever be able to claim his love.  The only reason I think he is so compatible with Nicole is because, bottom line, she’s E.J. IN A SKIRT!  That is the only way I see them together and that’s what I don’t want to see right now.  Maybe they should try Nicole with Rafe.  At least he’s willing to put her first, which is all she seems to want from E.J.  Then they can reunite Sami and Lucas and I can sit back with a big smile on my face watching the two of them go head to head with Kate.  I think AZ can make a relationship work with practically anyone they put her with, but putting her back with E.J. now, before he is exorcised of his demons, won’t change him.  His motto should be "That which cannot kill me only makes me stronger."  E.J. DiMera will never be redeemable for me.

Sorry, but you know me when I get on an E.J. roll!!!