We’ve gotten used to seeing pathetic alcoholics paraded across our screen on reality shows, but Ronnie’s binge-’til-you-pass-out behavior is made even sadder by Sammi’s enabling behavior. This is a couple who seem destined for tragedy, and we’re not simply talking about looking back in 20 years and wondering why they ever allowed themselves to be shown in so humiliating a light.
After finding out that his wife “accidentally” slept with her teenage daughter’s hunky young beau — both were wearing masks at a party — Ridge basically shook his head and said it was the kind of thing that could only happen to his scandal-plagued wife. Which is kinda true… but dude, come on!
She’s a complete control freak and he rebels against, well, everything. Opposites attract. But you know what else they do? Kill each other.
Sometimes, dysfunction simply works for a couple. There are times when Claire looks at Phil as if to say, “Who are you and how did I wind up your wife?” And it’s easy to see why: The man is a buffoon. Yet time and again, we are shown what it is that keeps them together. Like many real-life pairs, they vacillate wildly between wanting to kill one another and realizing how lost they’d be without each other.
She’s everythingphobic and he’s deeper in the closet than a conservative republican. ’Nuff said. 
