Meg Snyder is the daughter of
Emma and Harvey Snyder. She is the sister of
Seth Snyder,
Iva Snyder Benedict, Caleb Snyder, Elinor "Ellie" Snyder, and
Holden Snyder. She was involved with
Dusty Donovan in the early years and even faked a pregnancy to trap him. Meg married Tonio Reyes but had an affair with
Josh Stricklyn and became pregnant. She had a miscarriage after falling down a flight of stairs. She later married Josh, and they left town. She returned to Oakdale in 2005 after eleven years and began working as a nurse at Memorial Hospital. It was revealed that she and Josh had since gotten divorced and she picked up her old relationship with Dusty until it was clear to her that he was in love with
Jennifer Munson. Meg had planned to leave Oakdale but instead found
Paul Ryan in the woods, badly injured from a gunshot wound. Since he was a fugitive, she took him secretly to an abandoned cabin, treated his wounds as a nurse, and took care of him until he was healed. The two fell in love and later became engaged.
Craig Montgomery was released from jail for his role in switching the babies of Jennifer and
Gwen Norbeck Munson, and he set his eyes on Meg. She eventually left Paul at the altar and slept with Craig after losing her job as a nurse from causing a patient's death due to negligence. She married Craig to regain control of Worldwide Industries and restore the company to its original owner,
Lucinda Walsh. Paul and Meg planned to leave Oakdale as soon as Lucinda had the company, but Craig found out and took Meg on a honeymoon. Craig then drugged Meg and let Paul fall off a cliff during a fight with Craig. When Paul was assumed dead, Meg continued her marriage with Craig, moving on. When Paul appeared alive and returned with Craig's ex-wife,
Rosanna Cabot, the two agreed to continue with their separate lives. Meg then discovered she was pregnant, but having slept with both Craig and Paul, she was unsure of who the father could be. While Paul and Craig were fighting, Meg attempted to break up the fight. Paul, as a result, pushed Meg accidentally, causing her to miscarry. Meg later divorced Craig as Rosanna fell back into her comatose state. In the divorce decree, she returned Worldwide Industries to Lucinda. In July 2008, Meg finally married Paul, though in a hospital bed, after being admitted for psychotic episodes brought on by fatigue. After marrying, Meg discovered she was once again pregnant with Paul's child. After finding out that Paul hired a Jennifer lookalike to seduce and distract Dusty, Meg asked for a divorce. A ghostly
James Stenbeck convinced Paul to fake an overdose to get her back. Meg, having found a suicide note, went to the cabin they shared when she nursed him back to health and found Paul having overdosed in the chair. After trying to resuscitate him and get him to the car, she went into labor. She called Dusty, and he took her to the hospital where she delivered a healthy baby whom she named Eliza. Paul subsequently agreed to Meg's divorce. Dusty then learned that Craig had plans to marry
Carly Tenney Snyder in an attempt to take Johnny away from him by proving he had a more stable family. To retaliate, Dusty proposed to Meg, which she accepted to help Dusty. The marriage was soon considered invalid. Meg was committed to Deerbrook Mental Hospital due to an account by
Damian Grimaldi, who made the rejected Meg believe he was leaving
Lily for her. Damian later paid a man to turn off the cameras at Deerbrook, told Meg he loved her and was leaving Lily, and paid a doctor to tamper with Meg's medications to keep her unstable. Upon escaping from Deerbrook with the help of Paul and his wife,
Emily Stewart, Meg goes to find Damian to kill him for keeping her committed. During their struggle, Damian strangled Meg, and she fell to the floor. Meanwhile, Lily came back to argue about leaving again with Damian. Months later, following Eliza's christening, Paul agreed to let Meg move back into Fairwinds despite Emily's objections. Meg's delusions continued as she drugged herself with
methadone to gain Paul's attention. When left alone, Meg shot Emily with a gun filled with blanks. She was then admitted to Memorial under psychiatric care. Paul gently encouraged her to receive the treatment that she needed. Though he assured her that a part of him would always love her, he could not follow her on her journey to recovery; she had to push herself to get better for Eliza's sake. Coming to terms with her drug-induced illness and the toxicity of her relationship with Paul, Meg agreed to go with Emma to a treatment facility in
Washington, D.C. Meg left Memorial with confidence, with her mother and brother Holden by her side. == References ==