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- Previously on "Teen Mom: The Next Chapter"...
- Well, Ryan's come a long way in the last year.
He seems like he's doing good, fingers crossed.
And you know, the little bit I've been
around him and Amanda, they seem to be doing good.
- I want a friendship with Maci.
You want your kid to be comfortable
around them, trust them.
I just want them to have that security with me.
- Right.
- You know, I was talking about how
I wanted to have another kid, but like,
right now is not the time.
I need to get a good job.
- Yeah.
I just need a bigger house, like,
that feels like a forever home.
Yeah, how'd court go?
- They took her to jail.
- Oh, damn.
Are you done with your crying spells?
- I mean, it's a hard pill to swallow when, like,
I've been clean for 15 months, and then
you have to go back to jail
for [bleep] that you did in 2018.
- Amber Portwood... - Baby.
- Will you marry me?
- Yes, I will.
- Do you plan on telling all these guys about your proposal,
or do you think you're gonna wait?
- I kind of wanted to wait.
Gary told me that Leah had said that she feels
that since I'm with another guy,
that I'm just forgetting about her.
- She wants you around, even if she's
gonna be a little brat.
- You know, I'd love to spend more time with you.
- All right. Dinner tomorrow at FoxGardin.
- The only option is--
- Fertility doctor.
So first up is to just go get my tubes untied.
- IVF is the best option.
- But she did say that IVF is 60%.
- Yeah.
- The only thing that we require
for getting pregnant with type 1 diabetes
is having that A1C number at a 6.5.
- I've always ran high.
- OK.
- Always, like, nine.
- We are very strict on where we're at
with that number in terms of getting you pregnant.
[somber music]
[upbeat rock music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ We're making big moves ♪♪
♪♪ B-b-b-big moves ♪♪
- Hey, guys.
So it's moving day.
And I'm so excited.
I know that we just moved last year.
But this house, we had to jump on it.
The deal was too good.
This is giving, like, our dream home vibes.
And Sean also got a job.
- They hired me on as a co-foreman.
I start next Tuesday.
- Oh. I'm so proud of you.
He's still doing his home inspection nights and weekends.
But right now, him having a job,
we have extra money coming in.
Life right now is expensive.
Our new home is gonna be expensive,
so we need all the extra income that we can get.
- Where's the sink at?
- Figure out where the sink is?
- Yeah, because we--the sink is usually right here.
- ♪♪ Real big moves ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- Got the front yard cut.
- Perfect.
- Did you sleep good in your new bed?
- Yes, I did. - Yeah?
- I love that bed.
Yeah, I feel like this is like a new, fresh start in life.
Well, next step in our future, we talked
about having another baby.
Like, how does that play in with our careers, our jobs?
Like, when is the appropriate time to start actually trying?
Kloie's gonna be seven this year.
And I feel like if we don't do it here within
the next year or so, like, start trying,
I feel like I just won't.
And then when I get older, I'll regret only having one
and not having at least one more.
- Yeah, we definitely have plenty of room.
- Plenty of room to make a little nursery.
- It's kind of nice having your dad around, to be honest.
It helps out with a lot of stuff.
- Yeah, he does.
It's nice to see him with Kloie.
I think I've actually been able to get closer to him being--
him being, like--you know, spending time with him,
and talking to him, and--
- Yeah.
So when does your mom come home again?
- Tomorrow.
- Your grandma still working on getting them a place or--
- Yeah.
I'm like, look, I'm helping you out.
I'm letting your husband, my dad, you know,
stay for a little bit while you're in jail.
I feel like I've done enough.
Once you're out--you know, you guys are married.
You need to figure it out together.
Me and her won't be able to hang out and have fun
together and have a good mother-daughter relationship
if I'm constantly, like, being her mom.
- Yeah.
- ♪♪ Go ♪♪
♪♪ Go ♪♪
- You gotta jump.
1, 2, 3.
[laughter]
- ♪♪ It's go time ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah ♪♪
♪♪ It's go time ♪♪
[phone ringing]
- Hello.
What, are you at work?
- Yeah, I'm at work.
- How's that going?
- It's going good.
- Yeah, this Thursday.
- Ryan's been sober a year, so let's do a cookout.
- At y'all's house?
- At our house and have all the kiddos over there.
- Yes.
We're gonna celebrate you.
[laughs]
[laughter]
- [laughs] Yeah.
I don't forget.
- He's good.
- He is pretty bad at that.
You just keep texting him.
Send him funny things.
He'll respond.
All right.
Well, we'll see you Thursday then.
- All right then. - All right.
Sounds good. Bye.
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♪♪ ♪♪
- You know, we're doing the barbecue
with Maci and the kids.
- I'm excited. Everybody gets along.
We get to see everybody.
- We've come a long way.
- You made a difference.
And Maci made a difference.
I appreciate what you did, you and Maci both,
bringing this family back together again.
And I know it wasn't easy.
- I just got a pretty disturbing phone call
from Ryan.
- He called you?
- Apparently, he didn't like my tweet,
something along the lines of he's a 30-year-old
that still needs his ass wiped.
So he called me in a fit of rage
and tells me he's gonna show up over here
and put a bullet in my head.
- What?
- I got a warrant put out on me
because of him and her.
And then I had to go to jail because of that.
- So I told Bentley Ryan got arrested.
- Yeah.
- Imagine how hard it would be to tell
your [bleep] child that.
Probably till the day I die, I'll still want to punch Ryan
right in the [bleep] throat.
- Ryan has never been there for him,
but y'all make Bentley feel guilty.
- You need to step back.
- Sorry son of a bitch. - Stop.
- Let me tell you--
- Where were you at in the first three years?
[arguing]
- Put the kid first.
Stop putting that sorry excuse of a human being first.
- Well, thank you.
- I appreciate Maci's understanding of your hard work
and the whole process of addiction and everything.
- I mean, if she acted the way I had, I would--
- You might not be so understanding.
- Hell no, I would not have been.
- See? - It took a lot for her.
- She's very lenient and understanding.
- Yeah.
- And I need to apologize to Taylor.
I said some things that I probably shouldn't have said.
- The actions that he took to be there for Bentley and Maci
and just--you know, stand behind her, how could
you not respect that man?
- Oh, yeah.
- Hey, you know what?
Hey, while we're sitting here...
- Hey. - How about you tell me sorry?
Just say you're sorry.
- I'm so sorry.
- I got it.
We're clean.
- From the bottom of my heart...
- We're clean. - I'm so sorry
for having to put up with all your [bleep].
- All right.
I'm sorry too.
So are we clean now?
Hey, we're gonna wash this slate.
- Until next time.
[laughter]
- Please no.
- You guys still working on that car again?
- ♪♪ Then I saw bright eyes ♪♪
♪♪ Looking like sunrise ♪♪
♪♪ You laughing with my family until midnight ♪♪
♪♪ Now I think it's bizarre love is not ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- Hey, ladies.
So I have a big update.
Today, I'm starting the first step
in this IVF process.
I'm starting birth control.
And last time I was on birth control,
it was a complete disaster.
I am a type 1 diabetic, so anything
that messes with my hormones, especially birth control--
- Yeah.
- I don't want to be depressed.
- Don't worry, babe. Don't worry.
I'll be strong for you.
- I--yes, I finally have a good partner.
But I'm just saying, like, I was, like, suicidal.
[somber music]
OK.
- I got you water.
- Oh.
- And I got you a pill.
- OK, so this is one of many hormonal medications.
I am gonna ask for some grace ahead of time
if the medicine makes me... [growls]
- There's gonna be fun moments,
and like, emotional moments, and hard moments.
Thank God I have this man cave.
[laughter]
You know what I'm saying?
- OK.
You got to punch out Tuesday.
- Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
Plunk.
There you go.
Ooh, it's tiny.
- How crazy is it that this is gonna have
so much effect on my body, just a little tiny pill?
- Go.
Swallow. - OK.
[laughter]
Oh, my gosh.
[upbeat music]
OK.
Next step, going to see the fertility doctor.
This appointment is gonna let us know when we
can start the process of IVF.
- Yay.
And it begins.
- ♪♪ Want to go way out beyond ♪♪
♪♪ Do you ♪♪
- ♪♪ Every no ♪♪
♪♪ Is a yes to our future ♪♪
♪♪ Yes, you see ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- So how'd you think last night went?
- Oh, the cookout?
I enjoyed it.
- I did too.
Yeah, I mean, that was, like, the first dinner
that we've had with Amber since the whole birthday incident.
- You got an issue or something?
You're acting like a [bleep] ass[bleep] for no reason.
- Can you watch your mouth, please?
- You're an idiot.
- Who was late?
- Not me.
- 100% you.
- Did you have a chance to talk to Leah after the party
to see how she felt?
- She was fine.
I think we both pretty much agreed,
like, it was, for her meeting Gary,
literally kind of the perfect opportunity
and the perfect setup.
- I enjoyed meeting him in person too.
- No, he wasn't bad.
- Now, what do you think about her
when she said making set plans for future visits, like,
every Wednesday or every Thursday,
we're gonna get together and do that?
Do you think that's too soon for that?
- If we put it in stone, then when
she doesn't make it, it's--
- A let down to Leah. - It's a failure. Yeah.
Exactly. So we can't do that.
I think what I can help do is if we're all together,
just kind of make it--
I don't want to put no pressure on nobody.
I don't want to put anything on Leah.
I just want to-- I really just want
to sit there, enjoy, and keep it at that.
[somber music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- My goal for tonight is any time that
I can get with my daughter.
But I'm really nervous for this to let them know
I'm engaged because I don't know how
everybody's gonna react.
♪♪ ♪♪
Are you feeling nervous?
How are you feeling about letting everybody know
you got down on one knee?
- I'm not nervous at all because I like all of them.
- I'm nervous.
- Why are you nervous?
- Because I've been engaged six times.
- Oh, yeah.
You know, I like them.
I can tell that they like me.
- And I think Gary even said something like that.
He is like a brother to me, just so you know.
Like, he is--he's like that big brother
that wants to keep poking at me until I get...
[growls] - Yeah. Mm-hmm.
- But I think for this, they're gonna know it's--
it's happening.
- They sense that this is different.
- Yeah.
- ♪♪ Carry ♪♪
- You know I have been with my Gary for seven months now.
Here we go. - Yeah.
- I'm excited to let them know, hey, I finally
found someone who I actually think
I'm gonna marry this time.
- ♪♪ Ooh, I can't sleep ♪♪
[singing indistinctly]
♪♪ I can't sleep ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
♪♪ These old sheets ♪♪
- Well, Mom's gonna be here tonight.
- What time is your mom coming?
- She gets out at midnight.
My grandma's gonna pick her up from jail.
Well, hopefully, Mom will get home and get back
into her old self, and cook, and do all the normal stuff
that she usually does. - She's gonna have to.
- And once you guys get a place and get back into routine,
I feel like it'll be better.
As long as she's in her right mind, we'll be good.
All I'm thinking about is going to bed
and working tomorrow. - Yeah.
I'm gonna have Mom stay up.
The trundle has the mattress in it, right?
- Yeah. - And then you and Mom
can sleep in there.
- Well, I mean, by the time your mom gets here
and gets all wound out,
I'll be getting up to go to work.
- Yeah.
- ♪♪ I'm going way in ♪♪
♪♪ Out in ♪♪
- What?
- ♪♪ To the open ♪♪
♪♪ I'm going straight in ♪♪
- There she is.
- ♪♪ All in the moment ♪♪
- Hi, hon'.
They see your mommy waiting?
- Oh, I get in the front?
- Yeah, you can get in the front.
[laughter]
You see that?
- OK.
Get the [bleep] out of here.
That's what you do.
- That's what I'm thinking.
- It's nice to breathe some fresh air in this place, boys.
- Are you excited?
- Hell, yes.
- ♪♪ Everything I know is bound to go ♪♪
- Come on, Kloie.
It's time for bed.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Hi.
Oh, my God.
You look sick, like you haven't been around the sun.
- No.
- You haven't been around vitamin D.
- I've been in jail for two months.
Sean, bring it in.
- I got you a gift basket in your favorite color.
- Yellow. You're not funny.
- Same color as your outfit.
- Oh.
Thanks, Jade.
That's so sweet.
- Got you a pajama outfit and a new bra.
- Thanks, Jade.
Your house is beautiful.
- Oh, thank you.
- Well, thanks for letting us stay here for a couple days
until I find something.
I appreciate it.
- My pleasure.
I guess I'm the hostess with the mostess
around here.
I'm about to go to bed.
- I'm so anxious, though.
I probably can't go to sleep right now.
I have anxiety really bad.
- You can lay down here
and watch a movie or something.
- I'm overstimulated.
- Bye, guys. Love you.
Thank you.
Text me tomorrow, Grandma.
- Thank you for getting her.
Ice in the freezer.
- I'll see you in the morning.
Now that all this jail stuff is behind my mom
and she's clean and sober, I'm really hoping
that the whole family can just grow closer
and make up for all that lost time.
- What you doing, honey?
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ There ain't no doubt about it ♪♪
♪♪ I know you're all about it ♪♪
♪♪ I know you're really loving what you see ♪♪
♪♪ I know you really want it wild and free ♪♪
- We're gonna do the cookout thing at Jen and Larry's house.
- OK.
Given where our relationship has been in the past
with Ryan and with Jen and Larry,
did you ever think we would all be getting
together for a cookout?
- Absolutely not.
Not in a million years.
- No.
- Him and I being able to maintain a respectful
co-parenting relationship and friendship
has made a big difference on everyone.
And like, I'm just glad that y'all all can,
like, appreciate each other in the same room type of thing.
- I mean, I think him being sober is a huge turning point.
You know what I mean?
- Yeah.
I don't know that Ryan and Taylor
will ever be, like, friends.
And that's OK.
But Taylor is gaining respect for Ryan
and the work that he's done.
And Ryan's gaining respect for Taylor
and the role that he plays, and the father figure,
really dad, he's been to Bentley
and how supportive he is.
To me, that's really important.
I feel like we should all be very proud of ourselves...
- Yeah.
- Because it, by no means, has been easy.
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ All eyes on me ♪♪
♪♪ Mm, mm ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- Hi.
- Hey, guys.
So we're here to help you have a baby.
You have type 1 diabetes, right?
- Mm-hmm. - OK.
Your level needs to be below 6.5?
- Yes.
It's 7.9 right now, so it's, like--
- But when it's above 6.5, what happens is
you get a baby with spina bifida or a cleft palate.
You were fortunate not to have that when you were younger,
you know, with power of youth.
So it's kind of complicated, but we can control this.
And you're an athletic person.
I'm confident that you can get it down fast
if--with the right help, with the right assistance.
Like, I would love to give you supplemental medicine
in addition to your insulin, maybe some extra things
like Ozempic or metformin.
- Just for her to get her A1C down.
- Yeah.
That's the right way to think.
It's really a game changer.
- So what is the game plan for--
- So are you wanting to do this right away?
- I'm already on the birth control.
- Oh, you are? OK.
- So I'm one week in.
- So the recipe for IVF is strange.
It's, like, two or three weeks of birth control pills
and then 10 days of a tiny little shot.
And then with a needle, we go in your body and get the eggs.
And then once you're pregnant,
we have to stop those medications.
And then you just have to-- then you're on your own
with the insulin pretty much.
- So we can freeze the embryos until my A1C is at 6.5?
- Absolutely. - OK.
- There's no doubt in my mind you're going to have success
from this process, so let's keep it safe, you know,
as safe as we can.
It'll be our privilege to help you.
- This meeting makes me feel a lot better.
I'm super excited.
- That's awesome.
- ♪♪ Together ♪♪
♪♪ Life is like a living dream ♪♪
♪♪ Oh, when we ♪♪
[phone ringing]
- Hi, Dad.
It's your favorite daughter.
- Favorite daughter.
- I'm just kidding.
So I went to see a fertility doctor yesterday.
Things aren't gonna be as easy as I thought.
I'm not waiting till my mid-30s to have a baby.
The risks get higher and higher.
- I just worry--I worry about your diabetes.
I'm not gonna lie, it scares me really bad.
You talked to your doctor.
What do they think about already having three kids
as a diabetic and having another one?
- They said they would like to get A1C down to 6.5
before getting pregnant.
So I can go ahead and do all the IVF stuff,
but they freeze the egg.
And then I decide when--
I mean, I could-- I could freeze my eggs
and then implant it 10 years from now.
Do I want to do that? No.
But yeah.
- But I'll be a nervous wreck.
- So I know you have a lot of concerns,
but I've put a lot of thought into this.
- I've decided I'm just gonna be there for you.
Whatever you decide to do, I'm gonna be positive.
- Thanks, Dad.
I love you.
- I love you, babe.
- ♪♪ Say it, baby, baby, just say it ♪♪
- ♪♪ Been gone a while ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, it's been some time ♪♪
♪♪ Working hard ♪♪
♪♪ Staying on the grind ♪♪
♪♪ I see your face ♪♪
♪♪ On my phone at night ♪♪
- Good morning.
- Morning.
- I had to come get some fresh air,
something I'm not used to.
- So fresh, I got my pimple patches on.
How are you feeling?
You like your therapy dog?
- Yeah, I probably need one.
I was really anxious.
I'm never anxious.
And I've had anxiety.
- Probably because it's just a shock
being in somewhere locked in with no sunlight, no nothing.
- I don't even know where the root of the anxiety
is coming from.
But being in jail or coming out of jail--
- I think that's a normal thing.
When people get out of jail, it's, like, a normal thing
to not feel normal because you
have to re-adapt to normal life.
- It's just--it's different than any other time I've been
in there because other times I was in there,
I was like [bleep] up when I went there,
and I was [bleep] up when I left, you know?
And it was unexpected.
Like, I go in, and I think, you know,
I'm going on house arrest.
And then they arrest me in court, like--
- But I felt like right before you went,
you were getting lazy.
Like, you just started doing the same
[bleep] that you used to.
I stopped seeing you for a while.
Like, you were going right back into
how that was. - Depression.
Depression, and like,
detaching myself from, like--
- Yeah, but if you're self-aware, then, like,
you need to speak to, like, a therapist because if you
don't go to a therapist, you're gonna repeat
the same cycles and...
- And I keep it all bottled up.
- You're gonna ruin whatever happiness you got.
You're gonna take it from yourself.
- It's awful.
Like, falling back into my old habits, like--
I feel like God was like, yeah, you're slipping back
in your old habits, bitch.
You're gonna go sit down, and like, think
about what you did-- like, time out.
- Even when your life is happy,
it's still good to continuously do the work on yourself.
- Well, before I went to rehab,
I was like, if I was happy and something, like,
I got, you know, a good job or, you know, celebrate,
what'd we do? We'd go party and get high.
Well, if something bad happened and the worst thing happened,
you know, I lost my job, what was I doing?
Now I was going to get high because
that made me feel better.
It's like you use it for everything.
- You're just using that as a coping tool.
- It's like you have to replace those things.
It's sad to not even know what makes you happy, though.
- Yeah, because you're so used to filling it with dopamine
from drugs and [bleep].
- Like, from here, I just want to go back to work
and, you know, go get an apartment.
Like, from here on out, it's like fresh territory.
- ♪♪ It's supposed to be the best days ♪♪
♪♪ Don't let them rain on your parade ♪♪
♪♪ OK, OK ♪♪
♪♪ Get a little light and shine on ♪♪
- You sit in the middle.
♪♪ As long as I got my friends with me ♪♪
- Wait a minute.
Are we here before Gary and the family?
This is not normal.
- Is this a first?
- This is--actually, I think it is a first.
[laughter]
Hey, guys.
- Hello.
- Oh, man.
It's so nice out here.
How's it going, guys? - We're good.
- Kristina, how are you? [chatter]
- Good. Mr. Gary, how are we doing?
- What's up, big guy?
Here you go.
You look cute, honey. - Thank you.
- How's school?
- It was OK.
- Yesterday was great.
- I appreciate it.
I think everybody enjoyed it.
- I got a couple plates for you.
- Holy moly.
- You know, my goal is to get to know everybody better
and just for us to be just one big happy family
and regularly see each other.
I mean, I remember yesterday--she's
the one with the calendar, so you talk to her.
- I live by the calendar.
- You're gonna be scheduling all my meets.
- I was gonna actually ask about that.
I would like to go to some cross country stuff,
come watch you, if it's OK.
- Yeah, I just have to wait till I get my schedule.
- I just miss--
I miss you.
You know, I really do.
And I just want to be a part of that stuff too,
you know, sometimes.
[somber music]
- We can do this.
- There's one thing you got to keep in mind
when we do make a plan.
It takes consistency.
- Well, I know that, though, Gary.
I've known that for years.
As long as we can work together and make sure that
we can do things, I think we'll be fine.
- You know, at some point, you and I can have
a good conversation, you know, kind of make sure
we're on the same page and--
- I think we are, though.
I just want to know my daughter more.
I miss you, baby.
And it's been hard.
I'd love for you to give me a chance,
if you think you can do that.
- You know, with me being Leah's dad,
my job is to protect Leah.
If a parent's not healthy, it can affect the kids, you know?
So if you guys are a team, then that comes
to you as well because now you've got to help her,
you know?
- You know, today, I'd like to think that I'm finally healthy.
And I've got a healthy person with me,
so I do feel good about this.
- Want to do the honors?
- You can do the honors.
- I can do the honors.
OK.
[suspenseful music]
So we do have something to tell you all.
[dramatic music]
♪♪ ♪♪
[hip-hop music]
- ♪♪ Yeah, 20,000 friends, they got it lit up ♪♪
♪♪ Costs a lot when trying to lift some weights ♪♪
- Got to stop it, Jaxie.
Come on, Jaxie.
I believe in you.
Stop it, Jaxie.
♪♪ ♪♪
- What are you doing?
- OK.
Take a seat.
- Oh, gosh.
- You have to sign paperwork agreeing
that they discard the embryos if I die at any point
during IVF.
Crickets.
I hear crickets.
- I--I don't know.
I just feel weird signing this.
Like, I just feel weird thinking about it.
- Well, let's prepare you.
I'm a diabetic, and I'm growing a whole human.
And then they cut my body in half.
They take all my guts out.
And then they pull a baby out.
And then they shove all my guts back in
and sew me back together and hope that I live.
I signed it, knowing that's a risk.
[somber music]
- Can I sign this later or something?
- No.
Today's the due date.
- [sighs]
OK. There you go.
- ♪♪ Your eyes are made ♪♪
- Doing IVF is not going to be easy on my body,
so I'm gonna go through 10 days of injections
so that they can pull the eggs.
And then we are going to freeze them
and work on my blood sugars.
This is a lot emotionally.
We did our first injections last night.
We have 10 of these.
So after today, we're down to eight.
Here's good news.
I don't feel like killing anyone,
but I'm so freaking tired.
And let me show you.
That's me fighting to suck in.
With all these injections I'm taking,
they're growing my follicles.
And I get my eggs pulled on Monday.
All right.
Guys, it is the morning before the egg retrieval,
so we're doing our last trigger shot.
♪♪ ♪♪
- ♪♪ The time is now ♪♪
♪♪ Stand up, we're saving the world ♪♪
♪♪ The time is now ♪♪
♪♪ Stand up, we're changing the rule book ♪♪
- We're making a baby.
- ♪♪ The time is now ♪♪
- I made it through egg retrieval.
We got 15 eggs.
So out of the 15 eggs, I have four frozen embryos.
And right now, they're being stored so we can work on my A1C
and get them to a certain number for transfer.
I never thought I would be making a baby this way.
But hopefully, in the end... [sighs]
All of this is worth it.
- ♪♪ Is it all right ♪♪
♪♪ Is it, is it all right ♪♪
- Well, we're about ready to head over.
- Come on. - Let's go.
- Y'all don't need any more food.
We're about to go eat. - I got backup snacks.
Bye, Clyde.
- ♪♪ Worst critic, I'll admit ♪♪
♪♪ I see the glass half empty when it's full ♪♪
- What do we got here?
- Hi.
- How are you?
- Them shorts just keep getting longer and longer.
- Hey.
- Mama tried.
- How are you?
- What's going on, Taylor?
How are you?
- Shoo shimmy time.
- Shoo shimmy.
- Shoo shimmy time.
- Bentley, y'all come get some of this.
- You got that, buddy?
- Uh, no, I don't think so.
- You need help? - Yeah.
- All right.
Undo it.
- Don't let them go.
They'll fly away.
- If they fly away now, it ain't my problem.
It's on you.
Hey, Taylor.
You want to take a look at this car I've been working on?
- Yeah.
[somber music]
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- What are doing, Mommy?
- Getting it in.
Look at those little abs.
- She's ripped.
They fight a lot?
Are they good, like best friends?
- Yeah.
I would say majority of the time,
they're pretty good together.
But like, it's like, when it's bad, it's bad.
It's like, oh, somebody's dying.
- My son's 11.
And they would--I think they would play good together.
I'm trying to get it to where he can come with me over here.
- Yeah.
- Everybody's getting along. - It's special.
- Yeah, it is very special.
- Two years ago, this would have never happened.
But honestly, for, like, the last year and a half,
I'm good.
And communication's really important.
- Yeah, and you know, you live and you learn.
Correct. I agree with that.
- If anything--
- You just want Bentley to be happy.
- Yeah.
And if anything were to happen, I would
handle it much differently.
- He's what matters.
You did amazing with him.
- Thank you.
He's a good--really good kid.
- You're a good dad.
And I want to apologize because I said
and I've done some things that were not right.
- Well, I appreciate it, but I, you know--
I owe you an apology too.
- No.
It's--yeah, man, I'm just telling you.
- Those were tough times.
- Yeah, they were, Taylor. You're exactly right.
They were tough times. - I appreciate it.
- All right. You're welcome.
- Thank you, sir.
- Yeah, man.
I just wanted you to know that.
I've been wanting to tell you that for a while.
Hell, I'm getting emotional
because that's how serious I am.
- Yeah.
[soft music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Blow out your candle.
[laughter]
- Oh, my goodness.
- Hey, you are the man.
- This cookout, for me, it just symbolizes
growth and love
and family.
- That's Ryan's cake because it's his
one-year birthday for being good.
- For being good.
- And he made it.
- In this situation, I feel like
really just genuine love has proven
to be able to conquer anything.
And I'm keeping my fingers crossed that
it stays this way forever.
♪♪ ♪♪
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- So we do have something to tell you all
that you're all here.
Me and Amber are engaged now.
[dramatic music]
- Wow. - [laughs]
What do you think, Leah?
- I like him.
- Do you guys have a date planned?
- No.
It's fresh, girl.
It's fresh.
I can't wait to see you guys again and having some more fun.
I know you guys have to go to school.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
- Thank you so much.
- Congratulations, my man. - Thank you so much.
Appreciate it. Yeah.
- Love you.
I hope you're all right with everything.
Yeah?
I love you.
I'll see you soon.
- It was really good to see you.
- You too.
- Yeah.
- ♪♪ Giving space and feeling free ♪♪
♪♪ A little room for us to breathe ♪♪
- What do you think about it?
- Surprised.
- You're surprised?
- Yeah.
- So--oh, man.
- I mean, it's still too early, but yeah.
- Nobody get their hopes up.
- And that's the thing.
- Time--time--
- Err on the side of caution.
- Yeah, you don't--
we take it for what it is for now.
- ♪♪ I'm still drinking our favorite wine ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- You know, today went pretty well, I think.
- I think they all like me.
And you know, I still got to get to know
them all better, especially--
I want to especially get to know Leah better.
- I think Leah, she's--
she still needs to warm up to me being--
want to be a big part of her life.
But I've always wanted that.
I just never had, I guess, the chance to really tell her that.
Today was actually the first day I've ever said
that to her in front of her.
You know, I really want her to see that I'm with someone
that's not going to put me down,
but they're gonna lift me up.
You're a good guy.
And I don't think she's ever seen me with anybody like that.
- Mm-hmm.
When I said I want us to be one big happy family,
I meant everything because I know that's important to you.
That's important to them.
- I don't see anything else other than happiness for us.
Hopefully, we will be seeing them more
and doing a lot more stuff with them.
[somber music]
I don't want to feel pain or hurt
when it comes to Leah anymore.
I just want happiness and forgiveness.
Since I'm with Gary now, I think
this is the time to really start that new beginning,
that new chapter.
♪♪ ♪♪
- How was it for you seeing your mom?
- I don't know. It was just awkward.
- Yeah.
- It's a hard situation for you.
- It was kind of rushed how she just kind of, like,
got engaged and popped back in.
- It's kind of like, oh, we meet him.
You're engaged, you know?
We just met the guy, you know?
- Yeah.
- It's just awkward.
- I mean, yeah, like, because we hadn't
seen her in seven months.
And we hardly got any messages from her.
And now that she's engaged, happy--
we're happy for her.
But all of a sudden, she wants to start coming more.
Where was she for the past seven months?
I mean, she was working on that relationship with him.
But Leah's been here the whole entire time.
- I plan on talking to Amber
and give her reasonable expectations.
Do you want to see her more, or like, do you want--
- No.
I don't want to, like--
- What if she wants you to be a part of her wedding?
No?
- I don't want anything to do with it
and the Gary stuff.
She just shows up again and thinks that
we're all one big happy family.
- We support whatever decision you want.
And we hope that one day that you guys
can rekindle that relationship.
But it's entirely up to you.
- I don't want to be one big happy family.
- ♪♪ Sometimes I'm back where I began ♪♪
- My mom's got her own apartment.
But since she left, she's been a bit in MIA.
I found out that my family members were lying to me
and that my mom had relapsed and been using narcotics.
I asked my mom to do a drug test.
She flipped out, hung up on me, wouldn't answer my phone call.
I haven't talked to her since.
I knew, obviously, like, you're guilty.
The same day, I asked my dad to do the same thing
because I was worried.
My dad was like, yeah, that's totally fine
and came over within, like, 15 minutes,
did a drug test and passed the drug test.
I feel so defeated.
I'm gonna reach out to my mom's counselor
from rehab for some advice.
[somber music]
[line ringing]
- Hello?
- Hey, Cathy.
It's Jade. - Hey, Jade.
How are you doing?
- I wanted to give you a call because I actually
found out that my mom relapsed.
And my grandma and my aunt had basically been hiding it.
- They're covering for her again.
They're enabling her.
- I've explained this to them.
Like, this enabling, this is essentially killing her.
If my grandma and my aunt want to turn the other way,
they don't want to help be a part of doing anything,
it's like, I can't do it anymore.
Like, we've hit a wall.
- That might be just where you're at,
is that, for you, letting each of them know,
I can't stand by and watch that.
And I'm gonna have to cut you out.
It may spark something in your aunt and your grandma.
It may not.
Your mom is typically really defensive,
so I don't know if it'll do anything.
But she'll hear it, and she'll sit with it.
- Then what the [bleep] was the point of her going to rehab?
And I'm over here just, like, dying to have my mom back.
And you guys are still--
you're--I feel like you-- all of you are helping
take that away from me.
- Shame on them.
- I honestly feel really betrayed
by the people I love the most.
Me and Sean have talked about having another baby.
That's why we wanted to find a bigger home,
where we could grow our family.
But I don't see how we could.
I would like for them to be able to go to Grandma's house
and stay for the week.
And like, that's what I did when I was a kid.
And I'm like, man, that's [bleep] up
that my child or my future children,
like, they won't have that right now.
I'm hurt.
Like, my heart's broken.
I thought, you know, for a split second,
like, I'm gonna have my mom back.
I'm gonna have back, like, everything that I wanted.
- Unfortunately, the only way to protect you
and your family, your child, and your husband,
and your father is to completely cut
all of them out of your life.
- I'm sorry.
I'm just so [bleep] upset.
- ♪♪ I'm taking 'em all ♪♪
♪♪ I'm tearing them down ♪♪
♪♪ Your kingdom's gonna fall ♪♪
♪♪ Who's laughing now ♪♪
♪♪ I'm taking it all ♪♪
♪♪ You're down for the count ♪♪
♪♪ Yeah, I'm taking 'em all ♪♪
♪♪ I'm tearing them down ♪♪
♪♪ Your kingdom will fall ♪♪
♪♪ Who's laughing now ♪♪
♪♪ I'm taking it all ♪♪
♪♪ ♪♪
- Next on "Teen Mom: The Next Chapter"...
- You're doing great.
When the girls feel comfortable,
you can start building a relationship with them too.
- Hi. - Hey, y'all.
- I want to exit out of what I'm doing.
- He wants somebody to carry out the family business.
- It is a big decision.
I just want you to take it seriously.
- Once a dude is not attached to the mama no more,
he ain't really interested in the kids.
- Devoin is moving to Michigan.
You're leaving your daughter.
- Yeah, I know.
Have you heard the news?
- She don't want to talk to her mom,
she don't have to.
- This is my daughter.
- What the [bleep]?
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