Amidst the sea of ​​kidnapping drama, human bones and DiMera family intrigue, Days of Our Lives still manages to make room for very “normal” moments: love, confusion, telling the truth and… worrying about failing college.

It is these light beats that set the stage for heavy twists, making Salem not turn into a pure crime drama but still retain the feeling of a long-running soap: where life continues on many levels.

On the “mature love” level, Stephanie and Alex are at a stage that many couples in real life will find a bit… familiar.

They no longer stop at dating, sleeping together and then thinking about it the next day.

The two of them sit down, in the middle of a house full of Christmas decorations, to ask each other difficult questions: do we really want to get married? Do we want to have children? Stephanie, who had revealed her fear of motherhood, suddenly had to face that question head-on, no longer avoiding it by “thinking about it later”. Alex, on the other hand, had to learn to listen to the real answer, even if it didn’t match his dream of “a house and children”.

Although there were no gunshots or people being kidnapped, this scene carried its own weight. It touched everyone who had ever loved but wasn’t sure if they fit into the “wife – husband – father – mother” expectations that society set. The feeling of loving someone while not knowing if you can handle other roles makes Stephanie very real. Alex wasn’t the type to “say one thing and say one thing” either: he had to wrestle with the idea of ​​whether he could accept a future without children, if the person he loved chose that.