The cracks in Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright’s marriage were apparent on the April 30 episode of The Valley.
Amid concern about their dwindling sex life, Jax surprised his wife with a visit to a tantric sex therapist. Brittany was worried about her post-baby body and felt Jax was no longer attracted to her following the birth of their son Cruz. Because he’d cheated on her in the past, Britt wondered if Jax could no longer be interested in sex with her because he was getting it somewhere else.
“I definitely don’t think that Jax is cheating,” she said in a confessional. “But of course, it’s always, always in the back of my mind. It’s like, if he’s not cheating, then why do we have so many intimacy issues?”
Britt is shocked by Jax’s change of plans
“Brittany’s been my rock since day one,” Jax told the cameras. “This is my wife … my partner, my best friend … my soul mate, I guess. She’s been everything in my life for the last 10 years … I want to do … be that guy that she first met. I hope she sees that I’m putting in the effort, and … this buys me a little time.”
Sadly, things didn’t go as well as Jax had hoped. “I can tell that Jax doesn’t appreciate me anymore,” Brittany said. “He doesn’t … put me on a pedestal [or] make me feel good about myself. I just feel like we’ve been together so long that he doesn’t care to make that effort anymore. That stopped a while ago, and if that doesn’t change, then I don’t know what’s going to happen with us.”
Jax tried again to rekindle their sex life by booking the penthouse suite at a luxury hotel, including dinner prepared by a private chef in their room. Over dinner, though, Jax confessed that with Cruz’s speech issues and the opening of his new bar, now might not be the best time for a new baby.
Brittany immediately burst into tears, and rather than being sympathetic, Jax was annoyed.
Another child would be “overwhelming” right now
Telling the cameras that another child would be “overwhelming,” he added, “Do I keep working on our marriage, or do I throw another kid into the mix when everything’s already going to sh*t? It’s not going to help our marriage. It’s [only] going to make it worse.”
“I feel like I don’t even know him right now,” Brittany said in her own confessional. “He is just completely blindsiding me. I am a great mom [and] a great wife. It almost feels like I’ve done something wrong, and I know I haven’t. It f**king sucks.”
Brittany didn’t understand how a second baby would affect Jax’s life. “You don’t even do anything!” she accused. “I take care of everything.”
Calling her comment “a slap in the face,” Jax walked out. So mature.
“I don’t know where to go from here,” Britt sobbed after he left.
So much for date night. As we all know, Jax and Brittany separated in February. Even though they still claim to be working things out, their main focus is the well-being of their three-year-old son.
The Valley continues Tuesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
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