The Young and the Restless - MESSAGE BOARDS

Quote Backstreet:

What most women would see in NIck now is that he runs when the going gets tough, he looks like a coward! Nobody cares about what Phyllis did 20 years ago and I, for one, sure wouldn't be worried about her coming after me and neither would most women. Women look at the man, honey and this man is looking like a kid with his thum in his mouth running home to big daddy to save him. What he looks like is a little boy who sits on his paper thrown of judgmental platitude like he has nothing that he has ever done in his filthy life. Nick always reverts back to being an innocent boy when he can't handle being a grown man and taking responsibility. That is why he stayed with Sharon for 10 years! With Sharon, Nick could always be daddy's safe little boy. Just look at recent events. Didn't he go back to work for daddy with Sharon? Oh, sure. He can' always go back to being daddy's little boy when the world gets to big for him and he can't handle it. Nick lived his life like an irresponsibile simpleton the whole time he was married to Sharon. That is why he became a toxic, co-dependent with her. They lived sick. Now that Nick has chosen to at least try and grow up and live in the real world, what does he do? He runs home to daddy, the minute things are too heavy for him. The ones I feel for are Nick's children, he lets them down much worse than thier mothers ever could. He is a weakling. A little momma's boy. A twit. He don't have a clue how to be a man and he probably, sadly, never will. I don't care what Phyllis did or didn't do, Nick can't handle being man up for this woman. He is still not strong enough to become his own man. Nick is a child, he has lived his miserable life like a controlled child in a very limited surrounding. He can't handle real life. It is like he told Sharon, when Phyllis dumped him. He wants a simple life with no trauma and drama. Sure, NIck. Life in that little bubble in Neverland is where you belong because out in the real world with real men, you are always left sucking your thumb.

Quote Tambam: I think Nick will go back to Phyllis for sure! But my question is why would she take him back? I hope she tells this idiot to pound sand! Nick's all about "saving" and "helping" when Sharon is in a pickle. Not only helping her but excusing her behaviour time and again! But whenever Phyllis needs a hand he cuts and runs! I HATE the character of Nick so badly!

I know he's shocked blah blah. But this is the mother of his child and someone who just went through the hell of a miscarriage! He should stand by her for those reasons alone. She's all by herself now.

Quote Backstreet: If Nick actually leaves Phyllis, now, when she needs him so much, and needs him to understand this, then I don't think that Nick should go back. Phyllis wasn't looking for Nick when he came begging back to her to begin with. He had been dating her and then slept with her sister. He wasn't exactly the guy we were looking for, for Phyllis because we liked her moving on with Ronan and being happy. Nick made this huge declaration speech to Phyllis about he didn't even know who he was when he was going through all of that mess with Sharon and how he sure he was of his true love for Phyllis and yadda, yadda, Nick, right? So, here they are, and here he is, faced with thier first really big crisis and it is about Phyllis, not Nick. Now that is a real switch, because each time they were faced with tramua and drama it was usually always about Nick and his co-dependent, toxic thing with Sharon or some murder rap that Nick had do. Where was Phyllis? Always there helping him and standing by him and even at the bitter end, when she had had it with him, she left him! So, it looks like if it ain't about Nick, he just bails.

If Nick really loved Phyllis like a man really loves a woman, he wouldn't be walking out on her to go feel sorry for himself! That is pure selfish and that is Nick! For all that she has done for this coward? For as much as she has put her ownself in danger for this coward? For as much as she stuck by him, tried to find ways to free him, found his darn daughter for him!!!! If that cowardly little jerk wants to walk on Phyllis, let him.

No. Nick should stay gone. He is too much of a coward to be with a woman like Phyllis. He is spineless and belongs with the family tramp, blending into the woodwork where he was for most of his life on this show anyway. Nick is a little boy trapped in a man's body and he don't have a clue what it means to be a man. He is better off at the tackhouse playing in the little sandbox daddy had built for him in his backyard. He isn't man enough for Phyllis!

Quote chancegirl:

Funny! I could have sworn you were singing a different tune just days ago...About how they were the greatest couple on the planet and he would support her, bla bla bla...now he is a loser huh...did you really think he truly cared about Phyllis? LOL, he never had.