Days of Our Lives’ Xander and Sarah May Seem Doomed, But There’s One Big Reason Why ‘Xarah’ Fans Shouldn’t Give Up Hope
Friday, December 30th, 2022
Hold on to your hats, folks.
Why do we have the sinking feeling after Wednesday’s episode that Days of Our Lives‘ ‘Xarah’ is all over but the crying? And the yelling. Oh, we’re picturing so much more yelling.
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Because now that Sarah’s busted Xander and Gwen, forcing him to confess all to his wife, this marriage is all but dead in the water. And that seems even more likely since, according to spoilers for next week, Sarah is upset enough with her husband, that she has no problem tearing his world down!
She’s soon going to tell everyone in their life exactly what he’s done, from Maggie to Justin and Bonnie. And if she keeps talking, she may just end up landing him in even more hot water once word gets to law enforcement that Xander was, at the very least, an accessory to Susan’s murder! Then there’s also the fact that Gwen’s been helping him, and we can imagine Sarah would want to make sure she was knocked down a few pegs too and turn her in…
Yeah, it’s not looking good. Or, as Paul Telfer shared after Wednesday’s episode, “Strap in ‘Xarah’ fam, gonna be a bumpy sleigh ride for a bit.”
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Strap in #Xarah fam – gonna be a bumpy sleigh ride for a bit…#Days #Xwen #NaughtyList https://t.co/nncsotjbIb pic.twitter.com/TS6MFQ4Ga3— Paul Telfer (@PaulTelfer) December 27, 2022
Sarah has forgiven her husband a lot over the years, over and over again. Heck, the baby swapping she had to forgive him for twice as she learned about it, lost her memories, then learned about it again! And now this? If it’s not a bridge too far, we frankly don’t know what is.
And we all know that once Xander loses Sarah, he goes running to Gwen — especially since they’d already started getting closer while this whole scheme unraveled in slow motion! And once that happens, the chances of Sarah forgiving him grows even slimmer.
But if there’s one thing Days of Our Lives has taught us over the many years it’s been on air, it’s that love conquers all. Steve came back after 16 years of being “dead” to reclaim his life with Kayla. John fought Satan for Marlena. Bo and Hope reunited in heaven (and that was just a prelude to what’s sure to be their real life reunion coming). Couples that are meant to be are meant to be… no matter how big the obstacle is between them.
And this is, admittedly, a huge obstacle. But it’s not death, it’s not the afterlife and it’s not the devil, so really, so how can it possibly hope to keep true love apart?
And maybe, just maybe, it’ll be the kick that Xander needs to not just pretend to have changed for Sarah’s sake, but to actually change and become a better man who doesn’t fall into these old habits over and over again. No, it’s not time to give up hope for ‘Xarah’ just yet.
Because while it may, sadly, not be true in the real world, in Salem, very often, love truly does conquer all.
Take a look back at all of Xander’s mistakes this past year in our Days of Our Lives Year In Review photo gallery.
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<p>After months of terrorizing Salem, the devil left Marlena’s body — but jumped right into her grandson, Johnny.</p>
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<p>After getting dumped by her new husband — a.k.a. the newly possessed Johnny — Chanel found comfort in the arms of his sister, Allie. </p>
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<p>The Sarah mask continued to get a lot of airtime in 2022. But this year, Gwen and Ava took turns posing as Xander’s missing love, in order to make it look like she no longer loved the big lug.</p>
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<p>In reality, Kristen was keeping Sarah locked away on a deserted DiMera island. With nothing to do but read Renee DuMonde’s old diaries, a drugged Sarah began to believe that’s who she was.</p>
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<p>Chloe was thrilled when her parents, Craig and Nancy, came to Salem. That is until Craig broke Nancy’s heart by revealing he was gay — and in love with Leo Stark.</p>
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<p>TR Coates came to Salem to produce Johnny’s movie about Marlena’s possession. However, he was also Paulina’s abusive ex and Lani’s biological father, Ray.</p>
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<p>Despite TR’s claims that he was a changed man, Eli caught him buying drugs in the park. In return, TR shot his son-in-law, who landed in a coma.</p>
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<p>Thanks to MarDevil helping Jan rape Shawn in 2021, Jan was able to claim he was the father of her baby. She, of course, used that as leverage to help her get out of prison and into Shawn’ custody on house arrest. Needless to say, that didn’t go over well with Belle. </p>
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<p>When the Devil was done with Johnny’s body, the demon jumped to his twin sister Allie, but not before a pit stop in Belle. However, Satan’s final stop would be outside Marlena’s family.</p>
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<p>When AllieDevil’s attempts to secure Ben and Ciara’s baby were thwarted, Satan threatened to kill Allie. Tripp invited the demon into his body instead and then jumped out a window killing himself, thereby finally vanquishing Salem of the devil.</p>
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<p>Luckily, Ghost Bo made an appearance to resurrect Steve’s boy, Tripp. Though, not before he visited his “Little One” to assure Ciara and Ben that their newborn, a.k.a. his namesake, would be just fine.</p>
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<p>Despite Rafe being involved with Ava, who was Nicole’s good friend, Rafe and Nicole acted on their long-simmering attraction and became a couple.</p>
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<p>Rafe and Nicole even got married. Although, their quickie wedding probably lasted longer than their actual marriage, due to the fact that a newly returned and newly defrocked Eric returned to Salem.</p>
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<p>Gwen and Leo’s brilliant plan to have a double wedding blew up in spectacular fashion. They were both outed for their crimes <em>during</em> the actual ceremony.</p>
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<p>First, Chad exposed Leo for already being married to his friend and drag performer, Jackie Cox. Then, Craig learned he was Leo’s mark from the beginning. </p>
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<p>Chad may have enjoyed exposing Leo, but no one took more joy on that day than Abigail. She gleefully announced her sister’s role in Sarah’s continued disappearance and memory issues in front of the groom and wedding guests.</p>
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<p>Lani may have warmed up to her father, TR, but after he shot Eli, attacked Abe, and threatened to hurt Paulina, she had enough and shot him dead.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, killing her bio-dad landed Lani behind bars. Ever the devoted husband, Eli found a job near her prison in D.C. and moved with the twins to be close to his wife.</p>
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<p>Thanks to JoDevil’s manipulations, Chad helped send EJ to prison for kidnapping Sami. When in reality, Sami was off traveling the world with her actual kidnapper, Lucas.</p>
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<p>EJ’s time in prison turned out to be deadlier than he or Chad could have imagined. Once they were both freed, his former cellmate, Clyde Weston, killed Abigail in retalitation for EJ blabbing to Belle that he was the one who tried to kill him years ago.</p>
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<p>A devastated Chad was the one to find Abby bleeding from a stab wound in their bedroom. After she succumed to her fatal wounds, Chad began the painful process of grieving the love of his life.</p>
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<p>Not only did Sami go off with Lucas, but she planned to marry him. Well, until a vengeful, grief-stricken Chad outed Lucas as her kidnapper, and the one to set EJ up in the first place.</p>
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<p>After protecting their newborn from the devil’s clutches, Ben and Ciara literally sailed off into the sunset after Hope gifted them a boat named, Living in Cin.</p>
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<p>Clyde received his comeuppance, but not until <em>after</em> he convinced Nancy to fall in love with and agree to marry him. Luckily, the truth came out before Nancy could say ‘I do.’</p>
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<p>In the <em>Beyond Salem </em>spin-off, Hope reunited with Bo and their son Zack in Heaven, after getting shot by hitman Thomas Banks. They bickered, danced to <em>Tonight,</em> <em>I Celebrate My Love</em>, and then said goodbye, as Hope was revived on Earth.</p>
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<p>Hope may have left Bo in Heaven, but it won’t be the last she’ll see him until she gets there for real herself. Thanks to Megan Hathaway, he was brought back to life.</p>
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<p>Before Lani was carted off to prison, she was able to attend her parents’ wedding. Abe and Paulina put all their troubles behind them (for the time being anyway) and married on Juneteenth.</p>
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<p>Belle and EJ grew close while she represented him during his prison ordeal. Once he was free, and Belle separated from Shawn, the former in-laws gave in to their months-long attraction and slept together. </p>
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<p>After Jan gave birth, Shawn learned Jan’s fellow inmate/Orpheus’ son, Christian was the true father. He forgave Belle’s affair with EJ, and she forgave how easily he let Jan manipulate him and they reunited.</p>
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<p>Ava was on such a good path having rebounded from Rafe to a casual fling with Jake. But as soon as they made things official, Jake was shot by a mugger and died.</p>
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<p>After Jake died, Rolf transplanted his heart into Stefan, who he’d been keeping hooked up to machines for years. When Li found out, he ordered the mad scientist to brainwash Stefan into hating Gabi, so she wouldn’t leave Li for the resurrected love of her life.</p>
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<p>Li had his Stefan problem under control and even got engaged to Gabi, but things started to unravel when his little sister Wendy started sniffing around.</p>
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<p>Playboy Alex Kiriakis came home to join the family business and play the field… until he laid eyes on Stephanie Johnson, who also recently returned to Salem.</p>
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<p>It took a while for Alex to win Stephanie over, so he had some no-strings fun with shady lawyer Sloan, and a threesome with Chanel and Allie.</p>
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<p>It was revealed that while in college, Chanel had an affair with a professor and accidentally contributed to his wife’s death when they fought about it. Chanel was arrested, thanks to the woman’s vengeful daughter, a.k.a. Alex’s bed buddy, Sloan.</p>
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<p>While Chanel was released on bail, her mother took her place in jail for covering up the incident. No worries though, Belle got the charges dropped just in time for Christmas.</p>
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<p>After Sarah’s memory was restored, she and Xander were finally married. It wasn’t all wedded bliss though, as a broke Xander reverted to his old ways. He kidnapped Susan (and innocent bystander Bonnie) for Ava in hopes of getting some blackmail cash from EJ.</p>
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<p>Still bitter about things that happened decades ago, Orpheus poisoned Marlena, Kayla, and Kate. Luckily (?), Kristen discovered the cure in Rolf’s lab, but she only relinquished it when Brady agreed to dump Chloe and let Kristen move in with him and Rachel.</p>
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<p>One good thing to come from the women’s time on death’s door, was that a newly reunited Roman and Kate tied the knot. Impending death may have forced the issue, but they didn’t have any regrets. </p>
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<p>Nicole and Eric gave in to their passion despite her marriage to Rafe and his relationship with Jada. But their blink-and-you-missed-it reunion ended when a pregnant Jada had an abortion after Nicole imparted some “friendly” advice.</p>
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<p>Eric spiraled after he learned about the abortion and dumped Nicole. He landed in jail and in his new lawyer Sloan’s (hi, again!) bed. He then came up with a plan to “kidnap” Rachel in order to take down Kristen with Brady.</p>
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<p>Upon Jake’s death, Ava entered an all-out war with EJ, which led to Susan’s death. Ava then planted a bomb at Susan’s funeral before getting shipped off to Bayview for hallucinating her dead son Charlie.</p>
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<p>One of the biggest things to happen with <em>Days of Our Lives </em>occurred offscreen, so to speak. The 57-year-old soap opera left NBC for Peacock, where hopefully, Salem’s shenanigans will continue streaming for decades to come.</p>
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