Eric always tries to protect the people he loves that are in trouble.
He stopped Brooke from doing an abortion.
He kept on loving Ridge even though Ridge slept with his then wife Brooke.
He risked his life to save baby Rick.
He tried to save Bridget from Deacon when he was using Bridget.
He tried his best to save Kristen from a life with HIV.
He didn´t have Sally thrown in jail for stealing Forrester designs.
He did everything he could to protect Stephanie from learning the truth about Thorne´s relationship with Brooke.
He forgave Brooke for her mistakes.
He still treats Ridge as his son.
He slept with Stephanie while involved with Beth Logan.
He cheated on Stephanie with Beth and then Brooke.
He slept with Lauren that night while engaged to Stephanie.
After getting back his sight, he faked blindness to hang on to Brooke.
He tried to break up Tony and Kristen (because of Tony´s HIV).
He ran over Deacon with his car and thereby broke his leg (after Deacon had taken Bridget´s virginity while only using her).
He beat up Deacon together with Ridge and Thorne (after Deacon made a nasty comment about having his way with Bridget).
He forgave Brooke way too quickly after finding out Bridget´s husband was the father of her child.
He didn´t tend to Bridget´s needs after finding out her mother slept with her husband, he just pretended he didn´t know.
He refused to welcome Amber into the family at first and tried breaking them up.
He let Brooke raise their kids alone.
He married Sheila even though the family was against it because of Sheila´s past.
He got Ridge fired from Forrester creations.
He led Sally on and let her believe he was interested (in her in order for her to cancel her showing with stolen Forrester designs).
He divorced Stephanie because he had gotten Brooke pregnant and wanted to marry her.
He broke Thorne and Brooke up in Venice by using Brooke´s feelings for Ridge.
He refused to accept Thorne and Brooke´s relationship (because it would harm Stephanie and the whole family).
He refused to let Felicia have an own line at Forrester, thereby making Felicia go over to Spectra and having a bad time there.
He stood by family unity even though it broke his family apart.
He didn´t bother that Jackie had lied about Nick´s paternity, although he left his wife when he found out she had done lied about Ridge´s paternity since she found out one year earlier.
Stephanie´s good deeds
Stephanie, too, always tries protecting the people she loves from trouble.
She decided not to have an affair with Clarke, and therefore staying true to Eric.
She welcomed Amber into the family and was the only one in her corner.
She gave Rick and Amber a place to live.
She took in Jessica.
She took the blame for shooting Ridge in order to protect Thorne from going to jail.
She put her feelings for Brooke aside to help Brooke change into the better and help her with Hope.
She became a second mother to Bridget when she had been hurt by Brooke and Deacon and helped her get through it.
She accepted Brooke and Thorne´s marriage for the future generations of Forresters.
She saved Amber from Sheila by standing in front of Amber so Sheila couldn´t shoot her, sacrificing her own life as Sheila wanted Stephanie dead even more than Amber.
She forgave Maggie for her affair with Dylan and gave her a job.
She put aside her animosity with Sally when Sally was ill.
She forgave Amber for everything Amber had caused the family.
She protected Taylor´s marriage to Ridge from many different threats.
She tried to protect Ridge and Eric from ever knowing they were not father and son.
She gave Eric back his company.
When giving Eric back his company, she had to join forces with Deacon. And she was sneaky in her plans for Brooke.
She slept with 2 men (one of them involved with another woman) close to each other and didn´t know the paternity of her son Ridge.
She hid her daughter from the rest of the family because Angela was microcephalic (but she had also been told Angela would not live very long by the doctors, and didn´t want her family to lose her when growing attached to her).
She forced Morgan into having an abortion and then sent her back to New York.
She kissed Clarke while married to Eric.
She hired Clarke to find out if Kristen was frigid.
She located Stephen Logan and brought him back to the Logan family so that Beth & Eric´s relationship would end. And then she got Bill to give Stephen a job in Paris, which led to a separation in the Logan family.
She was mean to Brooke because she didn´t want her with Ridge. She felt Brooke was a gold digger.
She refused to give Eric a divorce.
She put in a videocamera in Brooke´s lab in order to see if Brooke was having an affair with Ridge (which she later did have).
She forged a letter from “Eric” to herself, saying he loved her and not Brooke. She showed the letter to Brooke and Ridge to get them together (and succeeded).
After getting her memory back after her amnesia, she faked still having amnesia to get closer to a married Eric.
She was nasty to Sally because she felt Sally was beneath the Forresters with all her stealing and undignified ways.
She tried to strangle Sheila (while poisoned with mercury by Sheila).
She tried to strangle Brooke because of her relationship with her 3rd Forrester man. Same night, she went after Brooke with a knife (after Thorne slipped her a mickey).
She left Morgan face down in the pool (after Morgan tried to kill her).
She tried to abort Morgan´s baby with an abortion pill in Morgan´s tea (because Morgan had tricked a married Ridge into father her child).
She hid a letter from Taylor to Ridge, telling him about her affair with James.
She got involved with James, who was married to Sheila. She and James had Sheila sent to jail and they tried getting custody of little Mary (after Sheila had tried to kill Stephanie and threatened to hard Thomas).
She urged Eric to fight for custody of Rick and Bridget when Brooke was missing in Barbados. Later she had Brooke arrested for kidnapping the kids when Brooke tried to claim them.
She decided to lie about Ridge´s paternity when she found out Ridge was Massimo´s son and not Eric´s.
She wouldn´t let Massimo be a father to Ridge because then she would be forced to come clean about Ridge´s paternity.
She sometimes made her other kids feel less loved and important because Ridge was her favorite son.
She refused to accept Felicia´s relationship with Zach (because his father´s gambling problems had led to much danger for Felicia) despite Felicia´s wishes to have her blessing.
She kicked Lauren out of her guesthouse when she found out about Lauren´s fling with Eric, which also marked the end of their friendship.
She disowned Thorne when he chose Brooke over his family, because he couldn´t have both.
She talked her family into not trusting Brooke to sign over the Belief rights to them. So the family tried to trick Brooke into signing over them and when Brooke found out she had been had, they lost half the company to Brooke when she threatened to sue.