Does Hope Love Rafe Enough To Spend the Days Of Her Life With Him? Well…

On Days Of Our Lives (DOOL), instead of proposing to Hope like he intended, Rafe is spending the afternoon he’d set aside for his proposal running around Salem, getting blessings from Doug, Victor, Roman…

By the time he’s done, he’ll be asking Howie Hoffsteder for Hope’s hand! (Howie was the cigar-chomping tough the evil Larry found under the face-covering veil while runaway bride, Hope, was being whisked away on the back of Bo’s motorcycle, as Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out For a Hero blared in the background… ah, the 1980s….)

Everyone Rafe (Galen Gering) talks to, waxes poetic about how awesome he is and how much Hope (Kristian Alfonso) loves him. But are fans actually convinced?

Original Recipe
Sure, Rafe told Victor (John Aniston) he knew Bo (Peter Reckell) was the love of Hope’s life, and Rafe swore he wasn’t trying to replace him.

But anyone can say words. The trick is to actually feel them. Has Rafe ever rescued Hope from a wedding on the back of a motorcycle? Did he stand by her while she thought she was a princess named Gina? Have they played Who’s the Daddy – more than once?

Does Rafe really think he can live up to any of that?

Point of View
And even if he thinks he can, the only thing that really matters is what Hope thinks. Does Hope look super-enthused about Rafe to anyone? Anyone? She certainly likes him well enough. And they’ve got all that cop-stuff in common.

They work well together. He put up with Sami (Alison Sweeney), so difficult women don’t scare him (like they should).

They work well together. He put up with Sami (Alison Sweeney), so difficult women don’t scare him (like they should).

Take No For An Answer
But Hope has said no to his marriage proposals in the past.

Does Rafe think he can just wear her down? And, even if she finally says yes out of pure exhaustion, will she mean it? Does Hope love Rafe, or is she just giving up and settling?

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