As we head into 2025, there is a distinct lack of romance on The Young and the Restless. Couples are either stuck in a long-term rut or warily circling each other, unsure if this is where they want to be. Where is the passion? Where are the sparks? Where is the tension, and where is the sense of what is meant to be? There is only one couple that could deliver all of the above—and more—in the new year. Why it deserves to happen:
Missed Opportunities
Despite all the many, many, MANY times they’ve cheated on each other and/or broken up, Victor (Eric Braeden) and Nikki (Melody Thomas Scott) continue to cling to the fiction that they are each other’s destiny. Why? They have practically nothing in common?
Victor can’t even forgive Jack (Peter Bergman) for risking his life to save Nikki’s—that’s how petty and messed up he is. And Nikki, most recently, didn’t agree with Victor lying to Lily (Christel Khalil) or with the way he treats Billy (Jason Thompson), the father of two of their grandchildren. Yet they both stubbornly ignore these MAJOR conflicts because they believe this is who they’re supposed to be with…until the next divorce.
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Eeeney, Meaney, Miney, Moe
Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) doesn’t have one true match. She works on the assumption that any man who once had her will never get over it, and all subsequent women are just vain attempts to fill the Phyllis-shaped hole left in their hearts.
This includes Jack, who couldn’t possibly love Diane (Susan Walters) as much as he loved Phyllis; Danny (Michael Damian), who is just fooling himself if he thinks Christine (Lauralee Bell) is The One. And Nick (Joshua Morrow)…the less said about his criminal ex-wife, the better. (We’re talking about Sharon [Sharon Case], not Phyllis, just to be clear.)
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Made For Each Other
This is why the OG OTP couple in Genoa City MUST be Victor and Phyllis. Think about it: They are both self-centered, egomaniacal, loud, and convinced of their own importance. Whenever they’re with other people, they constantly have to either gaslight them into seeing the world through Victor and Phyllis’ eyes or tell themselves that they’re right and everyone else is wrong.
Think of the mental effort that it takes! If they are together, each could live in their own deranged bubble, not to mention feed the other’s misguided fantasies. And most importantly, it would keep them away from decent, sane people. A win-win for all!
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