Jax Taylor looked back on his relationship with estranged wife Brittany Cartwright on their shared podcast on Friday.
As he confessed to feeling rushed into their June 2019 wedding, recalling that Brittany, 35, began planning the event immediately after he proposed, the 45-year-old The Valley cast member explained why he decided to get married and admitted to wishing he and Brittany had gone to couples therapy before their big day.
“That’s what society says. You’re supposed to meet a man, you’re supposed to meet a woman, get married, and have kids and that’s just the norm and I think that’s what happened to me,” Jax shared on the November 1 episode of When Reality Hits With Jax and Brittany, via Breaking the Rules Pod Clips on Instagram. “And don’t get me wrong. I love Brittany very very much and we had an amazing relationship. Yes, we had our ups and downs but I felt like maybe, uh, I don’t know, I just felt like it was the norm. You get married, you have kids, and you settle down and that’s just what you’re supposed to do.”
According to Jax, he doesn’t know if he was “entirely ready” to get married when he did.
“We weren’t even engaged that long. I asked Brittany to marry me, and then I would like to say, I can’t remember exactly how long, she started planning the wedding right away,” Jax revealed.
Adding to the hurry-up was the fact that the two of them were starring on Vanderpump Rules at the time and wanted to feature their wedding on the show.
“It was a tiny bit rushed. We didn’t even go on a honeymoon,” he recalled. “I don’t think we really embraced our relationship, embraced getting married, embraced being fiancés. I think that was maybe a little rushed.”
As he tried to “dissect where it went wrong” for him and Brittany, Jax said he wished they would have gone to counseling before they got married.
“If we would’ve gotten married in the Catholic church, we would have had to go to counseling so I don’t know, there’s little things here and there that I wish I would have done differently,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, months after filing to end their five-year marriage, Brittany took to her Instagram Story with a telling message about the “next chapter.”
“Your next chapter is going to cause some people to wish they had treated you better,” the message stated.
The Valley season two is expected to begin airing on Bravo in early 2025.
