Another wild year in Los Angeles means a whole new list of relationships that left fans groaning, cringing, or desperately wishing the writers would hit the brakes. 2025 delivered some sparks — but also a collection of messy, mismatched, and downright disastrous pairings that left the soap buzzing for all the wrong reasons. Today we’re breaking down the five romances that tanked hardest, counting down from disappointing to catastrophic.

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#5 — Brooke Logan & Nick Marone: A ship that sank on arrival

Their reunion should’ve been nostalgic magic — and for a brief moment, fans hoped it would be. Years ago Brooke and Nick had real heat, but their 2025 revival fizzled before it even got warm. Despite publicity hype and teases hinting at a grand comeback arc, the story barely lasted. Brooke fell overboard, Ridge paddled out hero-style and saved her, and poof — the Brooke/Nick reboot died on a beach as Brooke returned to Ridge like always. Fans were left wondering why the show resurrected Nick only to toss the whole thing aside. Not terrible, but hollow — and that earns them spot number five.

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#4 — Ridge Forrester & Taylor Hayes: The reunion nobody believed

No surprises here. This pairing has lived and died many times, and viewers saw the cracks long before the breakup hit the screen. Ridge drifted back to Taylor with lightning speed and even faster snapped back to Brooke, just like every cycle before it. Fans were begging for writers to break the pattern — maybe let Ridge rebuild with Taylor while Brooke explored something completely new. But instead, it was another loop of the same story we’ve watched for decades. Not explosive, just exhausting. They land at number four simply for forcing us to watch history repeat again.

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#3 — Remy Price & Electra Forrester (and Remy & Dee): A romance no one asked for

Not even a true romance — more like an obsession wearing romance as a mask. Remy’s fixation with Electra bordered on disturbing: digital stalking, deepfake photos, manipulation disguised as affection. Electra saw him as harmless, which made it even harder to watch. To make matters worse, Remy’s later involvement with Deacon only dragged the past pain back up and reopened every scar Electra worked so hard to heal. Both pairings were unsettling, uncomfortable, and unbalanced. A relationship built on violation earns a firm spot near the bottom.

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#2 — Luna Nozawa & Will Spencer: A delusion gone deadly

Another “romance” that wasn’t mutual — Luna imagined passion where there was none. Her fixation escalated from fantasy to obsession, then to criminal manipulation when she intoxicated Will, hoping to trap him into fatherhood. The fallout was catastrophic: miscarriage, escape, violence, and ultimately her presumed death under a pair of headlights. Luna believed she could force love into existence. What she created instead was trauma. A tragic storyline — but unquestionably one of the worst couplings of the year.

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#1 — Carter Walton & Hope Logan: Chaos disguised as chemistry

The most baffling match of 2025 takes the crown. They were thrown together out of nowhere, suddenly rewritten as if they’d shared years of hidden longing. Their relationship formed too fast, relied on invented history, and made both characters morally worse. Hope was clearly still tied emotionally to Liam, and Carter was fresh out of romance with Katie — yet somehow the two spiraled into a coup-plotting, power-drunk alliance that stripped away everything likable about them. Their downfall was inevitable, and the breakup felt more like relief than heartbreak. For rushed writing, awkward chemistry, and personality decay — they earn worst romance of the year.