A New Michael and Lauren for Young & Restless?!?

Once upon a time, we’d have said you were crazy if you’d bet on a relationship between Young & Restless’ Michael Baldwin and Lauren Fenmore to last. He started out as a sexual harasser and became a stalker and finally a convict. She began as Genoa City’s preeminent Mean Girl before racking up a larger collection of lovers than she had lingerie. But when they turned their lives around, what they found was… each other.

Today, the marrieds are #relationshipgoals for many of the other twosomes in town — and, in fact, some cast members as well. Though Devon Winters and Abby Newman haven’t been linked for nearly as long as Michael and Lauren, Bryton James hopes that Dominic’s parents will get there. “I’d love for them to eventually become the Michael and Lauren of the show,” the Emmy winner tells Soaps.com. “You look at those two, and they are a couple that’s been together for ages, and they sort of represent true, lasting love.”

Working in Devon and Abby’s favor? They seem to sync up as sweetly as cake and ice cream. Working against them? Thus far, they haven’t yet had to face a whole lot of interference from Abby’s family. And when Victor Newman decides to stick his nose in someone’s business, it tends to stay there!

On the flipside, Abby’s Daddy Dearest might just be relieved that she’s settled down with a nice, stable gazillionaire. Her track record is, after all, a disaster area. (She’s unwittingly dated a sex trafficker, flirted with a cop who turned out to be a killer, and married the doctor who went so bonkers that he kidnapped a pregnant Mariah Copeland!).