Despite Ridge's interference, Nick and Bridget would eventually get married. Bridget got pregnant but had a miscarriage, after she learned Brooke had an affair with Nick. Felicia returned with her son Dominick, claiming Nick was the father, but his rival, Dante Damiano (Antonio Sabàto, Jr.), was the baby daddy. Nick and Bridget split again and he wooed Brooke, but Massimo intervened by framing his son for a crime. After some turmoil, Brooke and Nick married, but Donna Logan (Jennifer Gareis) revealed she saw Ridge and Brooke kissing. Nick then had revenge sex with Bridget and she got pregnant.

Because Stephanie shoved Donna over a second-floor railing, Nick then dangled her over that same railing, forcing her to sign Forrester Creations over to him; Brooke divorced him as a result. When Nick sought help from psychiatrist Taylor Hayes (then Hunter Tylo) for his anger issues, he remembered that his mom was a prostitute, so Stephanie made Jackie's sordid past public. Nick then attempted to thwart the family's new company, Forrester Originals.

He later married Taylor, and was accused of murdering Shane McGrath (Dax Griffin), but was exonerated when Ridge confessed that he witnessed Shane kill himself. Nick made a deal with Eric Forrester (John McCook) that if he divorced Stephanie, Nick would sell him back Forrester Creations. He used that money to buy Spectra Fashions, renaming it Jackie M. Nick and Taylor later used in vitro fertilization to get pregnant.