OLTL Todd & Blair - 2001-80 (Todd kicks Blair out) 

One thing Todd did was never lie to Starr. That’s one quality he never received from his parents that he needed. Even if it was bad he never denied the bad repercussions

What an a--hole Todd was! Even worse, what a moron. It's obvious he loved Starr, but could not bring his crabbed little soul to show her more than the occasional gesture of tenderness. Much in the same way he loved Blair, but treated her like trash. Blair forgave Todd for so many unforgivable antics, but the poor baby that he was, forgave her nothing, or never let her believe he did. His wounded pride was like a permanent character trait--the only one he hung onto, or so he made it seem. In the early days, when he slowly began to morph from an angry, violent, predatory jerk/sociopath, into a damaged man who was still capable of deep love for the few people who meant anything to him, and showed a few other likable traits, it slowly became believable that (unlike in the case of Mitch Lawrence and other notorious "scumbags") redemption is possible. The writers and Roger Howarth took so much time and thought into portraying the evolution of such a complex character. and that is not an easy thing to make plausible. The writers could have done just as good a job in *convincingly* protracting Todd's growth into a real human being and thus making it even more worth watching, by having Todd let his guard down occasionally and letting the viewers and Todd's screen family, and later even friends, watch him evolve more a bit more profoundly by allowing him to give those he loved a glimpse into his better nature and his carefully hidden tender side.