Jax Season 5/Stassi Apology

I’m rewatching and I’m at the third part of season 5 reunion. And it’s the beginning of the height of Jax and Brittany. Momma Cartwright makes her debut, launch of Jax and Brittany take Kentucky.

Rewatching the Jax tearful apology to Stassi, it’s feeling like a classic narcissist move. I’m terrible to you in “private” but I’m nice to everyone else in public. I think he saw that opportunity and took it emotionally further (crying and admitting he was wrong). Like maybe he felt that 10% or knew that’s the “right response” and put on his best Meryl Strep impression.

I completely understand why Brittany got upset that night. Like I can’t do anything right about every little thing and he’s crying groveling to an ex years later after they’ve started moving on. And clearly he never changed since he’s continued the same behavior even now.

I just wanted to reach into the screen and shake her to wake up