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Monday, June 14, 2010

AMC: Jake and Amanda Renew their Vows

On their first anniversary, All My Children’s Dr. Jake Martin and Amanda Dillon renewed their wedding vows. The couple’s first year of marriage was somewhat rocky, as was their courtship, but after everything they went through the couple has finally found some happiness together.

Amanda and Jake were not in love when they began seeing each other. He was attracted to her, but his feelings were more sexual than romantic. Amanda fell hard, but she was second best. They broke up due to his feelings for Taylor, though that romantic relationship was very short-lived. She had moved into Tad’s house, as they continued a platonic relationship. The duo spent time talking and watching Spanish soaps. In time, Jake realized his heart was with Amanda and her child, even if he wasn’t the biological father. Later on in the story, Jake was announced the baby’s father after all, but it didn’t matter if the child was David’s or JR’s as he loved them both. Before her child was born they were married.

Their first wedding was eventful and in direct contrast to the second. David Hayward, whom they believed was the father of her fetus, was tied up in the living room of Tad’s house. Tad performed the ceremony and Amanda was in her last trimester of pregnancy. While the vows were full of love, Jake and Amanda knew they would have a long way to go. During their honeymoon, Amanda went into labor and gave birth to her child named Trevor after her late father. The following is a summary of Jake and Amanda’s first year of marriage.

Now this is where things get even more complicated. Amanda and Jake lied to everyone that Trevor had died. Jake double-crossed Liza who was blackmailing them and gave her a child that was borne to a teenager named Bailey. That child was dubbed Stuart, and now lives in Ohio with his mother. Liza faked a pregnancy and acted as if Stuart, whom she believed was Trevor, was her child. Only Jake knew that Liza didn’t have Trevor. David was skeptical of Liza, and checked the Stuart’s DNA, which obviously was not a match. David caused a lot of strain for Jake and Amanda’s marriage. After finding out the lengths that Jake and Amanda took to keep him from his child, David was angry. He held a funeral for a child that wasn’t dead. Jake and Amanda could have gone to prison along with any of their friends who helped them. Trevor had been left outside of a church, and taken which freaked out everyone, but thankfully Randi had him. As a solution, he agreed to let Amanda raise Trevor with him at Wildwind. Jake was not welcome to be part of Trevor’s life, but at least he would not be incarcerated. Amanda reluctantly agreed, while she continued to pledge her heart to her marriage.

To finally get free of David, Amanda consented to have another child with him. Yes, that doesn’t make much sense, but that’s what David’s offered Amanda, a sibling for Trevor in exchange for her freedom. Amanda and Trevor could move home with Jake, once this new child was born. During the time she was having David’s child, she would not be allowed to be intimate with Jake. This child would be conceived via medical means, but David and Amanda missed their appointment due to car trouble. Amanda reluctantly broke her marriage vows and slept with David. She did not become pregnant from the tryst in the car. David found out he wasn’t Trevor’s biological father, but he still loved the boy and seemed to develop a soft spot for Amanda. He faked dying to get sympathy and to keep her from Jake.

Once David’s lies came out about his health, and Trevor being Jake’s Amanda was done with David. Everyone wanted Jake to ignore David as getting into fights with him, only made everyone’s lives more complicated. Amanda, Jake and Trevor lived together happily until Amanda’s mother came back to town. Amanda’s mother Janet is institutionalized as she murdered Amanda’s father Trevor due to being jealous of their close relationship. Janet had taken some classes at the mental institution and was smart enough to break out to see her daughter. She was AMANDAFAN, who had been contacting her daughter via the web. Amanda had become a model for Fusion and interacting on-line was part of her job. Janet held Amanda hostage along baby Trevor and her modeling competition Natalia, who is also a police officer. They were rescued, and Janet was placed into custody. While Amanda was telling her Janet off, she had a stroke.

Amanda was depressed and worried, she would become like her mother. She became paranoid as Jake was keeping secrets from her. Angie Hubbard wanted to talk to her and since she’s a doctor Amanda was scared that they wanted to do an intervention. In actuality, Jake wanted to show Amanda how much she loved him. Eventually Amanda got the picture, but not before she flashed their friends who were at their loft for his surprise engagement announcement as their last engagement was not that much fun. Jake and everyone else were able to convince Amanda that their family would be happy.

On the eve of their wedding, Jake and Amanda spent some time apart and weren’t intimate. Jake’s mother Ruth came for the ceremony from Florida, while his father Joe was too busy with patients to come. The couple had a wedding rehearsal, bachelor and bridal parties, which were all things they did not have the first time. David crashed the bachelor party, fists were thrown and both David and Jake were arrested. Jake was bailed out before the wedding, but David was made to stay put until after the reception. Amanda’s ring was misplaced, though Greenlee and Ryan found it, so the wedding would not be ruined.

On their wedding day, Jake made a recording for Amanda with Trevor as she is the most beautiful bride to the baby even if he hasn’t seen her yet. Jake and Amanda spoke their own vows in front of their friends and family. Tad and Liza got the garter and bridal bouquet. Amanda enjoyed the wedding cake so much, that she nearly didn’t give any to Jake. Angie started to feel unwell, and Greenlee admitted that not everything was what it seemed with Erica.

Jake and Amanda left the reception together happily, while Grandma Ruth watched the baby. The duo had the wedding of their dreams. Their future seems content for now, as they committed their lives to each other.

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