Ethan Plath Chooses to End His Marriage to Olivia in Tear-Filled Welcome to Plathville Season Finale

TLC Season 5 Finale Welcome to Plathville they may have wrapped up a number of their stories – but they hardly created a nice arc.

As the minutes ticked away on the Plath family’s reality series, Ethan and Olivia tearfully concluded the future of their marriage, while parents Kim and Barry were at the end of the divorce process, cordially dividing their assets. Fortunately, there was one family member who couldn’t contain his joy: Lydia.

The 19-year-old beamed as she revealed: “I’ve actually been dating someone for a while now.”

While she didn’t reveal his name or show his face – although there was a photo of them outside with her in the background smiling at him as they took in the view from a high place – she added that “he’s an amazing, just an amazing man of God.”

“We met through mutual friends,” she continued. “It’s sweeter than I could have asked for or thought or dreamed, and it’s more beautiful than I could have imagined. We wanted to keep it private, just to grow in our relationship, to make sure we’re stable and strong and everything before I put it out there . And my family knows: they love him too.”

Lydia Plath on ‘Welcome to Plathville’.

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Lydia concluded by saying that her parents’ divorce did not “shatter” her faith in marriage.

Speaking of which, Kim, 51, and Barry, 55, were in a calmer place than the last time viewers saw them interact. They were finalizing the elements of the divorce and moving their belongings out of the family home, which they will soon put up for sale.

As the parents of ten shared everything from furniture to family photos, it was clear that the couple, who had been married for almost 25 years when they announced they planned to divorce in June 2022, were more comfortable moving on than they had been previously in season.

“I feel like if Barry could’ve adjusted emotionally to what was going on years ago, then, you know, we’d probably be on a different path now,” Kim admitted.

Kim and Barry Plath on ‘Welcome to Plathville’.

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And Barry noted, “There’s another chapter that comes after you go through the process of grieving the loss of a relationship. It comes to an end. You get through it. You come out okay. You’re like, ‘OK, if I can get through it and really mature through it, actually I can come out of the relationship with a better understanding, hopefully next time, if there ever is one’ I hope I learned something.

“Kim and I will always be connected by 25 years worth of great experiences,” he added.

Kim shared similar sentiments: “Barry and I have been together for 25 years, and the best part of that has been each of the children we’ve brought into the world, we’ve raised them and grown with them, had fun with them and laughed with them. . I wouldn’t trade those 25 years of marriage for anything for the beautiful children he gave birth to.”

She also said that she and Ken Palmer, 57, are still dating, that he has met all the children who live in the area and that she is still considering his offer to move in with him.

Kim Plath with Ken Palmer on ‘Welcome to Plathville’.

“Down the line, I see the inevitable: a blended family event where Kim is with her significant other, because, yeah, that’s what kids want. They want their mom and dad together. They want their mom and dad together and everything in harmony. Sometimes I have to work hard to get along,” Barry said. “It’s amazing that I’ve now rebuilt relationships with all of my kids up until Ethan. What I want to show them is that they’re just loved. You can’t go wrong with that approach. Because there’s so much they’ve never heard their dad say I love you.”

Indeed, over the course of the season, Ethan, 25, the oldest Plath child who became estranged from the rest of his family, slowly began to rebuild his relationship with his father and siblings. The season finale began with the end of his conversation with his sister Moriah, whom he had barely spoken to in almost a year. It wasn’t a perfect conversation — but, as Ethan said, “We’re both trying, and it’s a start.”

Several other Plath siblings shared the news: Micah, 22, wrapped up the season back in California, but is grateful to have been able to show off her beauty to some of his family members. Isaac, 18, who has been working on his pilot’s license, revealed he still has a few months of school left but plans to be the first member of his family to go to college and get a four-year degree; he hopes to get a job with an airline after that. In addition to chatting with Ethan, Moriah, 21, ended the season by playing her new single “Circus” on the episode.

Ethan and Olivia Plath on ‘Welcome to Plathville’.

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Plathville saved an update from Ethan and Olivia, 25, for the last 10 minutes. The couple, who married in October 2018 when they were both just 20 years old, struggled to confront several big issues — including communication, politics, religion and how to raise the hypothetical children they both wanted — in the second half of the season, and both were wondering if their marriage could or should continue.

As their conversation on the couch progressed, it quickly became clear that they had reached a breaking point.

“One of the biggest things that could be done on your end to make this work would be to go back and try to repair your relationships with your family and try to get back to some of the roots and values ​​that were instilled in you and how you grew up,” Ethan told Olivia. , who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home and has been talking about her negative experiences in recent years. “I feel like if you’re looking for something that you haven’t found, maybe it’s trying to take its place, and I don’t know if there’s a replacement.”

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Ethan and Olivia Plath in happier times.

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“Religion and the world I grew up in was a world built for men, that worked for men. And to tell me that I had to return to the culture, religion and belief that told me that I was worthless without a husband, that in a relationship I only needed submit and say yes, cook three meals a day and praise God and everything will be fine,” she replied. “I don’t think you realize the privilege you have of looking at me and telling me I should go back to it because it served you.”

Ethan countered, “There are roles that men play differently than women, and roles that women play differently than men, and that’s natural. It’s inherent in us. And the whole thing, cooking three meals a day, that’s one of the keys to a man’s hearts. When was the last time you cooked a meal?”

He later added: “I feel like I have to draw a line in the sand and say this is the absolute limit of where my personal beliefs will let me go with where you are now and bringing kids into it because they’re just not compatible… First, I told you things that I have kept inside me for a long time, and that is that if there was anyone on this earth today with whom I could have children, I would want it to be you. And I love you very much and I want it to be that way. But also, clean conscience, holding on to the beliefs and values ​​that I have and the way you’ve changed, I can’t see how I can do that. There’s just things I’m not okay with about the children I’m raising to think and believe. That’s a thing for me principles.”

Tearfully, Olivia replied, “I’m the child of two people whose principles are more important than their relationship with their daughter, and I’ll be damned if I do it again. Well, yes, it hurts me to feel like I was committed to this relationship and I feel like you decided not to be together. But I support the choice and think it’s the right move for what we both want our future to look like.”

“I love you as a person,” she adds. “I don’t think we’re the right romantic partners for each other, but I still love you and I still wish you the best. No one can say we didn’t try.”

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The last final card stated that “Olivia and Ethan have mutually decided to file for divorce.” On October 27, the couple publicly announced that they were separating.

Welcome to Plathville is available for streaming on Max.

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