Romance Report: Young & Restless’ Couples — Who’s Getting Together, Sticking Together… and Falling Apart (2024)

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Perhaps only a fear of re-breaking their hearts, should they take inspiration from their resurrected daughter and try to raise their romance from the grave.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Happily hitched for the third time. Well, <em>relatively</em> happily. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Victor and Nikki may survive Jordan’s vendetta against the Newmans. But will their marriage survive an aftermath that’s rougher than a bad hangover?</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Hot and heavy. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Orders of French fries usually last longer than the relationships into which these two get themselves.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced… for now. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Though Phyllis tried to repeat ancient history by coming between the former marrieds, their love emerged victorious this time around. Danny’s sure to be writing Christine a wedding song any second now. “Rock On… Your Finger,” maybe?</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Separated. Like, <em>very</em> separated. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Ashley had no sooner said “I do” to her conniving ex than she asked herself, “What have I done?” Arguably even more problematic is that she soon splintered into a number of alternate personalities, leaving her to wonder not just “What have I done?” but “Which one of us did it?”</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Newly acquainted. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Kyle’s son Harrison is already Team Claire. But a good portion of Genoa City is sure to eye her with suspicion, owing to her past as Crazy Aunt Jordan’s patsy.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Reunited and it feels so… uh-oh. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Heather may have succeeded in winning Daniel back from Lily, but Lucy’s parents lost their jobs in the process.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Former bedmates. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His dimples didn’t grow shallower. His abs didn’t become less rippling. Yet Audra’s interest in Kyle waned around the same time that the Abbott heir stopped being a pawn who was as useful as he was pretty.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Newly wed.<strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They married against all odds. Now they just have to keep <em>beating</em> the odds — a neat trick, what with Jack busy helping his bride’s sworn enemy, his ex-wife Nikki, climb back onto the wagon.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Split. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Sally wasn’t quite as over Nick’s brother Adam as she’d wished — and Nick had hoped — she was. But hey, they’ll always have their memories. And that couch.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Married… with children. (Well, one, at least.) <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Daughter Aria’s hearing loss has forced the couple to listen ever closer to their hearts.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> TBD. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Not only is the couple not as close as they once were, she’s completely preoccupied these days with ex-husband Cole and their back-from-the-dead daughter. “Understandable,” says everyone else who’s ever had a back-from-the-dead kid.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Together. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Rug burn? Other than their propensity for stair sex, there isn’t really anything standing — or lying — in the way of their happiness. Surely, their relationship can withstand the return of Nate the Snake to Chancellor-Winters. And her ex Chance’s hiring. And his ex Amanda’s visits. And… On second thought, good luck, kids!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> A thing of the past. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> One big betrayal (Summer’s secret-keeping for mom Phyllis) led to another (Kyle’s affair with Audra). Of course there’s always the chance that coparenting lil’ Harrison could remind these two of bygone days when we had “Skyle” for miles.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Happily married. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> She’s ready to ride off into the sunset with her husband. He’s less interested in a <em>last</em> hurrah than the <em>next</em> one.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Engaged. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> That little voice in the back of Audra’s head saying, “You’re second choice!” ain’t lying. The second Tucker finds out that Ashley’s been suffering from a split personality, he’s sure to split, too — from Audra!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Take ’em off the grill, they’re done. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Billy’s support of Chelsea turned out to have as much to do with him wanting to reunite with her as it did him wanting to look out for her mental health.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Th-th-that’s all, folks.<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Not a lotta husbands want to stick around after their wives have random stair sex with their sperm donor. And to be clear, Chance wasn’t one of the husbands who <em>did</em> wanna stick around after a thing like that.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Reunited, and it feels so good. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> He’s a relationship wrecking ball, and she’s an agent of chaos. What could <em>possibly</em> go wrong?</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Kaput. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> You <em>could</em> say Diane. But between “Phack,” they have more emotional baggage than you could fit in the overhead compartment of a dozen jets.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Don’t start us crying. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> His untimely demise stuck a fork in one of the more stable marriages that Sharon has ever had.</p><p></p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Pressing “restart.”<strong> Their biggest obstacle:</strong> At this point, there really isn’t one. “Ally” seem to have learned from their past mistakes. They certainly have enough of them to choose from!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> As finished as finished gets. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> He gave friend Abby benefits that were most definitely <em>not</em> approved by his girlfriend.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> “Ex” marks the spot. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Their passion was said to have burned them as badly as it heated up their nights.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Splitsville. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> With good reason, she hates his family as much as she loves him. Plus, if they never break up, they can never have make-up sex.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> R.I.P. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Nate’s affair with Victoria was the last straw for Elena. And she’d given him a lot of straws!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Game over. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Britney Spears’ “Toxic” wasn’t written about the exes — but it could’ve been.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Finito. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They just didn’t have what it takes to be lifers. Together, they were more like…yearers? A-few-monthers.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced coparents. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Did we mention how incredible Billy Boy is at turning good things bad? Because it does bear mentioning.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> It was fun while it lasted. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They were just kids when they originally hooked up and locked it down. (See photo.) And Daniel still hadn’t matured enough to deserve Lily; just ask Heather, with whom he two-timed his one and only.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> History. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> They might’ve gotten past her kissing his cousin Nate, but going so far as to play doctor with him? Er, not so much.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Separated coparents. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Sometimes love just ain’t enough. It didn’t help, either, that she tried to frame him for poisoning Rey.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Friends without benefits. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> No sooner had Chance and Sharon slept together than it started looking like Summer was into him, too. (Spoiler alert: She was and is.) Then Sharon had a wacky-ass dream that prompted her to dump the new exec in town without so much as a goodbye bagel.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced buddies. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> When they were together, she was kind of a homicidal homewrecker. Now, though? Well, now she’s the kinda femme fatale who’d throw herself at him just to stick it to his <em>other</em> ex, Christine. So… progress?</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Nemeses. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The onetime coconspirators are probably too much alike for that old flame to get relit.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Done-er than done. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Take it from Ashland — once ya lie about having cancer, there’s no going back. Also, he’s dead.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> May we never speak of their marriages again. <strong>Their biggest obstacle: </strong>Since she saw him as a father figure and had been hitched to both of his sons, they kinda put the “ew” in “union.”</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Mom-and-pop operation. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> It’s a tossup as to which of these two has a greater propensity for falling out of the frying pan and into the fire.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> <em>El fin.</em> <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Doug Davidson has said that he <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/news/600536/young-restless-doug-davidson-says-not-returning-paul/" target="_blank">won’t be returning</a> to the show. Translation: Paul won’t be returning to Christine.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Involved… we think. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> We haven’t seen them on screen in so long, we can’t be sure they’re even still a couple!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Exes. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Even if she hadn’t figured out that she was a lesbian, these two were probably always destined to be better as buddies than bed buddies.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Who knows? <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> The teenage sweethearts were shipped off to college before becoming a big enough couple to get their names blown up like Tessa and Mariah’s.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Charlie and Mattie’s daddy had a dreadful habit of lying to their mommy. And kissing other women. And sometimes sleeping with them. And…</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Former colleagues. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Imani vanished from the canvas around the same time that sis Amanda left town.</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Apart. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> Though the former marrieds are endgame to many a fan, they have a hard time convincing the stars to align. And <em>stay</em> aligned!</p>

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<p><strong>Current status:</strong> Divorced to the nth. <strong>Their biggest obstacle:</strong> He may have married her twice, but he now hates her three times as much as he ever did.</p>