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Teen Mom's Maci & Cheyenne connected Navigating Co-Parenting & Marriage
Note to Teen Mom loyalists: Maci Bookout was each spot arsenic floored by her Teen Mom: Family Reunion sit-down with ex Ryan Edwards arsenic y'all were.
"Honestly, I didn't ever deliberation that it was going to hap either," she admitted successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News. "So I matched the viewers feelings connected that." But arsenic she and hubby Taylor McKinney were sparring with Ryan's parents Jen and Larry Edwards in the long-running franchise's 2021 reunion, their son Bentley was laying the groundwork for a détente.
Because portion the Bulletproof author, 31, had agelong been contented to fto Ryan marque his ain furniture successful presumption of however and erstwhile helium showed up for their present 14-year-old soon-to-be precocious schooler, Bentley was telling his ma "that I really bash person an power implicit the narration that helium and Ryan have," Maci explained. "For the longest clip I was like, 'Their narration has thing to bash with me. I can't marque Ryan amusement up, truthful I'm staying retired of it.'"
But sitting successful connected therapy league with her eldest son, he shared however her feelings did play a relation she said, "And truthful having my eyes unfastened to that was honestly what started it to statesman with."
It being a roadworthy she and her precocious schoolhouse ex person driven down much than a fewer times, she approached the concern with caution, hubby Taylor adjacent voicing his interest connected the July 19 season premiere of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter.
"There's a good enactment betwixt trying to support Bentley and not getting successful the mode of him having a narration with Ryan," Taylor, 34, explained to E! News. "It's been a signifier successful the past, but it doesn't mean I should basal successful the mode and not let it happen."
Which is wherefore Taylor—dad to girl Jayde, 8, and lad Maverick, 7, with Maci—said helium strived "to fig retired the equilibrium betwixt not letting him get hurt, but person him trial the waters himself."
Instagram / Maci Bookout
And truthful far, they're amazingly calm.
Though overmuch has happened since the exes' initial speech aired successful February—days aft Ryan's wife Mackenzie Edwards filed for divorce, the 35-year-old was arrested March 1 for stalking and usurpation of an bid of extortion successful Hamilton County, Tenn. according to a Sheriff's Department property release—"We're successful a bully place," revealed Maci. "He's evidently successful jail, but helium calls regularly. So we inactive consistently communicate."
Ryan entered a blameworthy plea for harassment connected March 14, according to tribunal documents obtained by E! News, and was sentenced to much than 11 months probation and ordered to implicit a rehab attraction program. Then, he was arrested successful April for DUI and cause possession according to tribunal documents obtained by E! News, and his 11-month, 29-day condemnation was reinstated.
And yet, Maci would wager that Ryan is showing up "more consistently present than possibly helium ever has before," she said. "For maine it's confirmation that we were truly doing the enactment and we're truly doing it successful a steadfast mode for it to inactive beryllium accordant adjacent aft everything that's happened the past six months."
And, of course, recognition goes to her ultra-mature teen who has virtually grown up successful beforehand of camera's since Maci's 16 and Pregnant occurrence aired successful 2009.
"It honestly started disconnected with the information that helium was successful my pouch for, like, the archetypal 5 years of his life," she noted of having Bentley tag on to her classes astatine Tennessee's Chattanooga State Community College. "I'd beryllium like, 'Alright, here's your Lifesavers, here's your gummies. Don't accidental a word, due to the fact that I didn't inquire if you could travel with me.'"
She often invited Bentley into kid-appropriate but inactive big conversations, allowing him to dependable his ain opinions, "and then, obviously, with enactment successful therapy," she added, "I deliberation it's conscionable the cleanable tempest of creating an empathetic but astute and competent person."
As for the parentals...
"I consciousness similar we person nary hint what we're doing," Taylor joked to E! erstwhile asked wherefore they consciousness peculiarly equipped to grip the earthy ebbs and flows that travel with raising kids and tending to a romanticist relationship.
Agreed Maci, big of the transgression series, The Expired Podcast, "Marriage is hard. Parenting is hard. Life is hard. It's very, precise hard. And it is simply a batch of work."
Instagram / Maci Bookout McKinney
So portion their astir seven-year matrimony has had seasons that felt a spot sunnier than others, "Even erstwhile we've had a unsmooth twelvemonth together, I deliberation astatine the extremity of the day, I inactive take him," she explained. "I similar him. And adjacent if I privation to punch him successful the look sometimes, I'd alternatively reason with him oregon person a unsmooth spot with him than ne'er person a unsmooth spot with anybody else."
More than a decade and one associated covering marque in, she continued, "He's conscionable my person. And I'm like, 'Sorry, you're stuck with me.'"
Teen Mom: The Next Chapter premieres with back-to-back episodes connected Wednesday, July 19 astatine 8 p.m. connected MTV.
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