The way Kate gets on him a lot, and projects her OCD onto him can be very frustrating, although I admire her niceness and her ability to micromanage such a stressful situation. She is in some ways the perfect person to mange 8 kids. But the rigidity gets old, trust me. I think he clearly feels he is stuck in a situation he may not be entirely happy with, and has lost his identity as his wife is so dominant. He always seems to sort of mumble on camera, and not agree with all the positive things Kate says like he isn’t saying everything he’s really feeling.

But I don’t agree with the above comment, he wouldn’t just leave! He is responsible for helping to take care of 8 kids, and provides considerable income from his IT job. He’s a decent enough guy to know he can’t just up and walk away, and leave Kate to raise 8 kids on her own without a job. Not to mention the amount of abuse he would get from the public for doing that. He is, in a sense ’stuck’ in the situation, and so it wouldn’t surprise me if he expressed his need for freedom with other people.

Having said that, those photos prove nothing. Lots of people have friends they hang out with in bars, and give them rides in their cars. The two college girls looked just like a photo op, they wanted a picture with ‘the famous guy’ and he was nice enough to oblige. I really don’t see how any of these photos are compromising at all, everyone has friends and even married people are allowed to go out and enjoy themselves to whatever hour, they are still human beings.

He was probably just going somewhere with that girl in the car, or letting her drive because he drank too much. I am not sure I believe the story about ’she wanted to drive my car so I let her drive my car to her car’. That doesn’t really make sense, as her car couldn’t have been more than a short distance away and who checks out someone’s car, having a few drinks in them at 2AM? My feeling is that more likely he had her drive because he was drunk, and he’s a public figure. He couldn’t risk getting a DUI.

But I’ve often wondered if he would leave the marriage, because of his apparent unhappiness on camera. He’s probably too nice a guy to desert his family (if the show ended, there would be NO source of income without him). But it wouldn’t surprise me if at some point he took out his unhappiness and frustrations by hooking up with some other female even temporarily.

Not saying he has done that, the photos look innocent to me. Just saying-it wouldn’t surprise me as he clearly isn’t happy in his marriage with so many kids and all the constant stress, and it would be the only alternative for him to achieve any type of personal freedom.

Agreed–there are better ways to deal with that such as separation or divorce first. But can a guy in this much public view ever leave his family of 8 kids? Doubtful.

He may not have cheated yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he thought about it or actually did at some point. He can’t handle the pressure of the large family, the constant stress; and a wife who is clearly very nice, but also extremely controlling and critical and nags at him constantly. I like her as a person, but she drives me crazy the way she yells at him and has to have everything exactly a certain way because of her own hang-ups. She takes her OCD out on him, and that isn’t fair or a healthy situation to live in long-term.

At some point, this may come to a boil and perhaps they will separate. But I doubt anything like that would happen until the show was over, and they weren’t so much in the public eye. Then it would just be a few blips on the evening news.

The only time I have ever seen Jon really happy, is when they went on vacation to a ski cabin and he went snowboarding all day. Because he was acting like a single guy with freedom for a change!