Days Of Our Lives Relationship Timeline: Shane And Kimberly

They haven't been seen in Salem together since 2016 and have only appeared sporadically since the 1990s, but Shane and Kimberly Donovan are a "Days of Our Lives" love story to remember from the 1980s heyday of soap opera supercouples when location shoots and high romance where the name of the game.

Played only by Charles Shaughnessy and Patsy Pease since 1984, Shane and Kimberly now live in California with their children and grandchildren, with Shane occasionally making an appearance to solve an international crime like he did on the show's spin-off mini-series streamed on Peacock in 2021, "Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem." However, when they lived in Salem, they captured the romantic imagination of fans — and even spawned a Billboard Top 40 hit in 1988 with the Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson duet "Friends and Lovers." Take a look back at their love story, which began when a super spy met a former prostitute.

While pregnant, Kimberly insisted that she have tests done to determine who fathered her child. It turned out to be Shane's baby, but Kimberly didn't know that because Emma forged the test results, a typical paternity soap trope. Now engaged to Shane, Kim decided to keep the fact that she thought Victor was the father of her baby a secret, but when Shane learned the truth, he broke things off with her.

Towards the end of her pregnancy, Shane and Kim ended up in a remote cabin together where she went into labor. Shane delivered Kim's son and decided he would raise him as his own. However, Emma wasn't done with them. Once Kim, Shane, and baby Andrew were back in Salem, Emma kidnapped the baby and sold him on the black market. Kimberly's grief over her missing baby caused another breakup with Shane, but months later, he finally found Andrew in the hands of unsuspecting adoptive parents and returned the baby to his real mother. When Andrew was soon sick and needed blood, Shane and Kim finally learned who his real father was (via Soap Central).

While Kim and Shane enjoyed a second honeymoon in England, she was introduced to Shane's twin brother, Drew — someone he had never mentioned before. When Drew turned out to be a crooked double agent working for the ISA, he and Shane parted ways temporarily, but danger came calling again on a 1989 ISA mission in which Shane was presumed dead. Kim's grief led her to seek comfort with a new man in town, Cal Winters (Wortham Krimmer). It turned out Shane was alive and he walked in on his wife in bed with another man. To make matters worse, Kim thought he was a burglar and shot her own husband.

Then, it was like a case of deja vu for the couple. After Shane recovered, he and Kimberly reunited and she found herself pregnant. Once again, she did not know who the father was and once again she ran paternity tests without Shane's knowledge. Just like the previous time, the results were tampered with. Cal made it look like he was Kim's baby's father and he and Kim broke up again. That's when Kim left town only to return with her baby daughter, Jeannie Theresa. She suspected Shane might be the father and tricked Cal into admitting he faked the paternity results. However, the damage had been done and Shane and Kim chose not to reunite this time (per Soap Central).