Married At First Sight fans have accused Jayden of being ‘selfish’ and ‘aggressive’ after his tense dinner party argument with Eden on Wednesday night.
The couple reached breaking point during the episode when Eden, 28, struggled with her anxiety and broke down in tears over having to go to the dinner party.
Though they decided to attend the intense group event, they walked away from the party as Eden visibly struggled and had an emotional one-on-one chat where Jayden, 26, struggled to understand his bride’s point of view.
Eden admitted she feels like she has to agree with Jayden because she can’t escape confrontation with him, with scenes showing the bride shutting down as they failed to communicate.
After watching the ‘uncomfortable’ row, fans took to social media to brand Jayden a ‘massive red flag’ as they criticised him for his ‘aggressive’ tone towards Eden.
Married At First Sight fans have accused Jayden of being ‘selfish’ and ‘aggressive’ after his tense dinner party argument with Eden on Wednesday night
They also accused him of being ‘selfish’ and being more focused on being on TV than Eden following her repeated admissions that she wants to leave the show due to her anxiety struggles.
They fumed: ‘Omg, Jayden is a massive red flag. Eden, if you have to agree with everything he says just so you get some peace, he is not the one, babe!!!’;
‘Eden is literally having a breakdown and panic attack & Jayden is too focused about being on camera and taking the ‘experiment’ literally … Brother, forget the cameras & go home with your woman.’;
‘Well that was viscerally uncomfortable TV’; ‘Jayden’s rapid-fire statements are aggressive and triggers anyone’s anxiety;’ ‘This isn’t a cage fight Jayden, let her go mate’;
‘Once again Eden says how she feels and Jayden is trying to CONTROL her and make it as if she’s the bad one’; ‘Jayden needs to be about a thousand times softer with Eden’;
‘Jayden. Time and place. And stop cutting her off !!!!!!’; ‘Watching Jayden make anxiety centred around him and all about how it’s making him feel is unbearable. It is UNBEARABLE watching a selfish guy make mental health about HIM.’
The couple reached breaking point during the episode when Eden, 28, struggled with her anxiety and broke down in tears over having to go to the dinner party
However, other viewers showed their support for Jayden as they praised him for leaving the table with Eden and sympathised with his struggles to understand his bride’s anxiety.
They said: ‘I feel for Eden, but Jayden helped her away from the table, offered her some water and was just talking to her – not yelling, sitting calmly. Not sure he’s doing anything knowingly wrong. That and I did not have feeling bad for Jayden on my bingo card tonight.’;
‘Speaking as someone with anxiety myself, Eden is in a heightened state. We self sabotage. We have intrusive thoughts, & those thoughts *will* take over. I can honestly see where both Jayden and Eden are coming from. Eden needs a safe space. The barriers are up.’
The emotional scenes kicked off when Eden broke down in tears as she admitted she didn’t think she could handle going to the dinner party, which are famously combative.
Through tears, she told Jayden: ‘I obviously thought I could do it, I can’t. The way that I’ve been and the way I’ve felt is clear that I can’t handle this. These events give me such anxiety that it’s not worth it for me anymore.’
They then walked out of the dinner, and Eden admitted she feels like she has to agree with Jayden because she can’t escape confrontation with him as they struggled to communicate
After watching the ‘uncomfortable’ row, fans took to social media to brand Jayden a ‘massive red flag’ as they criticised him for his ‘aggressive’ tone towards Eden
She shared her fears about their relationship getting ‘ruined’ over questioning at the dinner, but Jayden insisted he still wanted to go and discuss their issues with the couples.
He said: ‘Going into the dinner party, if they ask us a question of how it is, I have to be honest about it.’
Eden eventually agreed to go to the party, but admitted: ‘Right now, I’m feeling anxious. I don’t know what Jayden is going to say to the group.’
At the dinner party, the couple appeared guarded as they tried to brush off the questioning, before Eden froze after coming under the spotlight from the group, prompting the couple to walk away from the table.
While talking one-on-one, Eden insisted she was fine and urged Jayden to go back to the group, but he insisted he wouldn’t leave her while she struggled with her anxiety.
‘It doesn’t matter what I do or how hard I try, I never seem to get it right,’ Jayden said to camera.
However, other viewers showed their support for Jayden as they praised him for leaving the table with Eden and sympathised with his struggles to understand his bride’s anxiety
While Eden explained: ‘I don’t think Jayden gets it, I don’t want to talk about stuff, I want to be alone, I want to go.’
And Jayden admitted: ‘I’m kind of a bit over it to be honest as I don’t know how to handle the situation.’
Eden appeared emotional as she admitted she ‘sometimes’ feels like she isn’t the right person for him, as the pair struggled to communicate.
Becoming overwhelmed, Eden said of continuing with the experiment: ‘I think I can’t really do this. I don’t think I can do this anymore.’
But Jayden urged her to make up her mind after going back and forth about whether she would stay or leave, with the experts questioning his way of communicating with her as they watched on.
‘I am scared of conflict with him because I can’t get out of it once I’m in it,’ Eden confessed to camera.
Eden admitted that she deeply cares about Jayden and was worried about damaging their relationship as she appeared committed to making it work with him
‘Sometimes I feel like he treats me like his opponent rather than his teammate.’
‘I can’t get out of it unless I agree and say all good. I feel like I can’t win and that I’m in a lose lose,’ she added, as scenes showed her shutting down in their tense chat.
Eden admitted that she deeply cares about Jayden and was worried about damaging their relationship as she appeared committed to making it work with him.
It remains to be seen whether the pair will overcome their issues as they will come under further scrutiny from the experts at Sunday’s commitment ceremony.
