Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s revealing verbal exchange on Red Table Talk broke Facebook Watch records, however, the scenes, saving their marriage, was all easy.

In this week’s PEOPLE number, a person close to the couple said their marital disorders were exacerbated by his fame and that the 51-year-old Bad Boys star felt “more pressure” for their high-level marriage to work.

“These are two other people looking to do it, and at best, there’s a big standout on them,” the source said. “People will grow and change, but most people don’t have the global that monitors each and every one of their movements as they do.”

While experiencing its ups and downs, a friend of Pinkett Smith’s tells PEOPLE that the Girls Trip star has never stopped loving Smith.

“She would be the first user to admit that marriage is hard work, but she’ll love Will,” she says. “Even when they weren’t together, Jada talked about their marriage as something special.

The couple revealed at last week’s Red Table Talk that they had separated about four years ago and, meanwhile, Pinkett Smith, 48, found herself in “another kind of mess” with a friend and singer August Alsina.

At her husband’s insistence, the actress said, “Yes, it’s a relationship, absolutely.”

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The couple still discovered their way back after rediscovering what made them satisfied as individuals.

“Thanks to this specific trip, I learned a lot about myself and was able to deal with a lot of emotional immaturity, lack of emotional confidence and I was able to make a deep recovery,” Pinkett Smith said on his Facebook Watch show. “And when I arrived and began to realize some things about you and me, he made the decision to break all communication with me, which was quite understandable. Everything is coming out now since it’s been several [years].”

The two were able to settle their relationship with Pinkett Smith by saying, “They gave us this new position of unconditional love.”

“We call ourselves life companions … You realize you’re literally with you for the rest of your life,” Smith said, joking that marriage “isn’t for the faint of heart.”