Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie should be enjoying the dog days of summer. After all, they're spending quality time together at a dream location. Brangelina, and their six children, are staying at the 880-acre estate in the South of France where they first went after announcing the arrival of twins Vivienne and Knox. 13 months later, the visit seems to be lacking much of the magic they enjoyed the first time.

"Brad has been adamant that Angie spend time with family and focus on them with as much passion and energy as she does with all her projects," a source told OK!

Angelina hasn't lived up to that hope just yet.

"Right after they got to France, Brad found a box of scripts that Angie had said she wanted to read. She and Brad got into a fight over it. Angie stormed out of the room and went into the bedroom."

At that point Angelina Jolie really wigged out and demanded that Brad Pitt sleep on the couch! Not exactly the romantic outing he had in mind for his visit to France. The insider relates that the couple has been fighting for quite some time, but now they are letting it all hang out, even arguing in front of their kids. That behavior used to be off limits.

"Angie walked away because she doesn't want to ever have to worry that her kids might one day wake up saying 'Mommy and Daddy fight all the time' like what she saw in her household," said the friend.

Brad would also like to keep the controversy away from the children.

"He played video games with the boys all night and made breakfast for the family in the morning, including fresh grapefruit juice for Angie."

There are other sources of stress in the once ideal relationship. Pitt wishes that Jolie would reconcile with her father, Jon Voight. That is a particularly sore spot with Angie.

"Brad risked alienating Angie by insisting she let go of old resentments and get back on speaking terms with Jon," said another insider. "It's not like Brad is proposing that Angie and Jon sweep the past under the rug, but he wants his kids to know their grandfather and bond with him."

The reconciliation isn't go to fly for a few reasons. Chiefly, Voight never paid $180,000 in child support payments to Angie's beloved mother, Marcheline Bertrand. That has rubbed Jolie the wrong way and it seems doubtful that she and her father will be moving past the issue and becoming a close-knit family.

"It's the principle that matters. Her mom's death has been the single most painful event in Angie's life. She still struggles to cope with the loss, so anything pertaining to her mom continues to be touchy."

Pitt, foiled in his efforts to become a peacemaker, has resigned himself to the reality that Jolie and Voight are finished.

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