MAFS RECAP | Feedback Week begins, with some hard hitting questions on MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT

It’s the morning after the Commitment Ceremony and Jade and Ridge are basking in the glow of another successful week.

For Jayden and Eden, after overcoming their first bumps on the couch last night, their relationship is stronger than ever. Lucinda and Timothy are also waking up feeling a new level of closeness, after Timothy’s walls continued to come down in front of the experts.

Cassandra and Tristan have both woken up more confused than ever after Cassandra wrote leave and chose to Tristan stay. They are unsure where to go from here.

For one couple, last night’s couch session revealed disharmony in their relationship for the first time. After Jack’s bad behaviors were reeled off by the Experts last night, Tori is waking up unsure if she can continue to stand by Jack and has lost confidence in the relationship.

Meanwhile, Sara and Tim are still in a state of disrepair after the events of the past few days. Tim decided to write leave at last night’s Commitment Ceremony, while Sara, who wrote stay, has vowed to make it up to Tim.

Sara has left Tim alone in the apartment for the morning, and he’s taken the opportunity to write down his thoughts to share. When Sara arrives, Tim delivers a raw and heartfelt explanation of his feelings, which very much lands with Sara.

It’s the next phase of the experiment: Feedback week, across several days, the couples will participate in a series of tasks designed to help them identify issues in their relationships that they can correct before the experiment comes to an end. The first Feedback Week task is the hard-hitting questions task, and the first pairing is Lauren and Jonathan and Tori and Jack who must prepare several tough questions for each other.

It’s no secret Lauren and Jack have clashed throughout the experiment. Lauren is skeptical of Jack’s intentions with Tori: they haven’t had sex, and she wants to find out what’s going on with them. For Jack, he’s not interested in talking to Lauren – he admits that they don’t have much respect for each other, and he’s not interested in getting her ‘feedback’ right now.

As Lauren and Jono hit him with the tough questions, Jack is unflappable, and despite Lauren’s best efforts to unsettle him, he doesn’t come unstuck. To her frustration, he answers her questions without flinching, and when questioned about having kids with Tori, he responds stating he’d like to have kids within two years.

Lauren doesn’t believe his answer and hopes Tori isn’t buying it. But Tori – while initially taken aback – turns out to be delighted; he’s said the right thing, and after the drama of the weekend it’s exactly what she wanted to hear.

In another Feedback Week task, Andrea and Richard put aside their recent troubles to design a special task that will help elevate Lucinda and Timothy’s relationship. With Timothy still living in a separate room dubbed ‘the mancave’, Andrea and Richard design a task aimed at developing greater physical intimacy between the pair, sharing a bed for the night. After completing the task, Timothy admits he surprised himself and found sharing a bed really comforting. In the morning, he gets up and moves out of the mancave for good.

Not all couples are enjoying Feedback Week so much. For Sara, who is trying to build back her relationship with husband Tim, the hard-hitting questions task with Jayden and Eden could not come at a worse time. For Jayden and Eden – the couple who revealed Sara’s betrayal to Tim at the last Dinner Party – their plan is to hold Sara accountable for her actions. And with Jayden and Eden both nursing their own wounds from their exes cheating in the past, the meeting with Sara will be personal.

The encounter is tense, and while Sara does her best to answer Jayden’s questions, things intensify when Sara admits to deleting text messages she exchanged with her ex. Sara says she deleted the messages because she didn’t want to hurt Tim, but Tim is plunged back into doubt just as the pair was getting back on their feet.

After Jayden continues to push Sara, not only on her deleted texts but on her relationship with Tim more generally, Sara is left feeling attacked and alone, and with no choice but to leave. She storms out down the hall, leaving Tim reeling.

Married At First Sight continues tonight at 7:30pm on Channel 9 and 9Now