Tara's plan in S6 was so stupid.

As I see it, her problem with a stalker lunatic ATF agent Kohn, with whom she had a relationship, originally had her fleeing back to Charming from the big city.

If it was not for that, she'd have had her brilliant medical career in it's own right, not really needed a husband in any support capacity, would no doubt have married a big-shot medico or other high-status high-income professional, had 1.5 little medic/professional kiddies, and lived happily ever after in 4/5 attempts.

She back there...Jax and her between them successfully eliminate Kohn, b4 she knows it she is knocked up, what is she to do?
She knew he was a violent criminal gang thug-albeit not an abusive one to his women--that was what she needed temporarily. What could she do then?

Take off back to the city and take up where she left off?
As disloyal and usey as it sounds, maybe that is exactly what she should have done. Kicked Jax to the kerb the minute she no longer had a problem presumably only bad guy/s could solve .

My theory of why Tara stayed is the love for Jax was maybe the only love and family she has ever known. Tara's mother died when she nine and we were never told why, so maybe her mother had been sick for years before that. An alcoholic father that probably never paid any attention to her when she was young, let alone after her mother died. I don't think she visited her father much after she left for Chicago either, she wasn't even sure if Jax was still in town when she came back, or so she said. Jax and Tara got together in their teens and by the sounds of it it was intense. Jax says himself that if was the type of love that I'm going to kill myself if I don't see you kinda love, or something like that. The bond they formed then was never broken as most first loves are. Neither one loved anyone else in the 10 years they were apart.

No Jax never told her she could never leave but I think it was an unwritten rule that she was never to leave with the kids. The one time he tells her to leave and go to Oregon he cries hard and tells her "I love you so much". I probably would not have left my husband either after he professed his love to me like that. We do get a glimpse of what Gemma thought when they found out Tara's plan of taking the boys and leaving when she tells her...what should we tell the boys, mommy moved away, or mommy passed away. That probably wasn't the first time Gemma told her she can't take the boys out of charming.

Tara's biggest flaw was believing Jax when he told her he was going to leave the club and give her "a beautiful life". She realized to late that the relationship was toxic. Jax also realized to late that Tara was right and he should have left when his wife was still alive.
Maybe not to this extreme, but most people have experienced a toxic relationship first hand or know someone that has. It's not as easy to get out once your in to deep.

Clearly you've not been in a relationship like they had since they were 16. If not for Kohn and the whole *beep* thing, I think she never would have come back. Tara isn't the first woman to cling on to someone as special to them as Jax while people around them saying "chick, what's so special about this guy?"

They had been together since they were 16, obviously it wouldn't be easy to love him, Helpless, sitting duck? Yeah, not exactly the words I'd use to describe Tara.

To be fair, before S6 the violence wasn't too hot and heavy that she couldn't handle it. is it nuts to keep her kids around and voluntarily stick around? Yes, but S6 was the club at it's worst. I don't blame her for scrambling and while it was frustrating it's realistic.

That's what pissed me off about Jax's sudden character change in S6 not letting her leave while in past seasons he was willing to let her go and take the children away from the danger.

She loved Jax since high school, all things would have been great if Gemma had kept her nose out of their business. She didn't want Jax leaving Charming, more like him leaving her.

I agree. She planned to disappear with the kids of the President of a biker gang that regularly murders people and has a psychotic mother. WHAT COULD GO WRONG??

Check out AfterbuzzTV podcast. It was made for folks like us that need to discuss shows with people after. They only have season 5 and on for SOA, but still riveting to listen to as you re watch.

I honestly think Sutter wrote Tara's storyline from Season 4 onward in a way that would minimize the controversy of her murder at the hands of his wife's character (who would probably have been responsible no matter when or how the exit happened) and the hate that would spill to the latter as a result. I'm guessing he didn't succeed with as many people as he intended (and he certainly didn't succeed with me), but I'm sure he succeeded with at least some.

remind me who first broke it to Gemma, freshly after the killing, that Tara had NOT given Jax and the club up...was it Juice ? Or nero ?