Above all the soaps, which I've watched this one keeps you in the zone of interest. People are written on so many levels from love as well as work to even health related story lines. They confront alcoholism as the characters struggle in all areas of life. The only thing keeping it from 10 stars, is when the women marry they always take their husbands name and emphasize this within the story.This is not the given in real life. In fact when women are expected to bear/raise and sacrifice endlessly for children and loose their and their children's lineage to someone who doesn't go thru the same pain it is deeply disturbing to me as a viewer, who believes that love should be a real partnership based on wanting what is just. This show needs an update on this point, this is archaic and doesn't emphasize a partnership mentality but rather one of ownership. Despite this I would recommend it otherwise because it does keep your interest and the writers come up with some amazing situations that make you in want of more.
