Welcome to Plathville: Ethan Writes Olivia a Letter 'Letting Her Go' Before Finally Signing Divorce Papers

Ethan and Olivia Plath say their last goodbyes.

In the episode of August 13 Welcome to Plathville, the former couple met to finalize the final arrangements before leaving their Minnesota apartment for good. When Ethan realized that Olivia didn’t want to keep many of the sentimental things, like their photos together, he asked her why she wasn’t fighting to move on anymore.

“There are things she threw away, and I thought, ‘Why did you throw that away?'” he told the cameras. “I think so, but she’s always been like that. Like when you cut something out of your life, it’s gone and you never look back. And I know if he can do that with his own family, I don’t stand a chance.”

He then told her, “I feel like you don’t care and it makes me angry. I feel stuck and can’t seem to do anything about it, but you don’t have that problem.”

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She explained that she cared, but they had been separated for nine months and she had been grieving the loss of their relationship long before that.

“It’s been a few years worth of watching the relationship die and fighting to save it and not being able to, and then we’ve finally accepted it and moved on,” she said. “I was just hoping he would sort things out on his own, and he didn’t.”

Ethan and Olivia Plath.

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Ethan admitted he never thought their breakup would be permanent, even referring to their biggest fight where he said he “couldn’t take [it] more.”

“I really thought we’d fight about it for about a week and then we’d start working on it,” he said.

“Yeah, well, you kind of did that a lot,” she replied. “It was not a healthy relationship.”

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Although Ethan said he believed they could have patched things up, Olivia argued that she disagreed.

“I think the way things are going between Ethan and I is a direct reflection of what happened in our marriage, me saying, ‘This isn’t working, this has to happen, this has to be fixed,’ and him putting his head in sand or under the hood of a car,” she said in her confessional. “And then when things fall apart, saying, ‘I just don’t understand what happened.'”

At that point, Ethan decided it would be best to leave and admitted that “just denial” was holding him back from signing the divorce papers.

Later, Olivia was looking through old photos from the beginning of their marriage and realized that they were just “two kids who didn’t know what they were doing.”

“It’s hard to see Ethan in this much pain and struggling so much with everything, but I’ve spent years under stress and I’ve been on the other side of things,” she said. “I realized that I felt more lonely when I was in a relationship than when I was alone.”

Olivia Plath looking at old photos.

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Olivia admitted that she still loved Ethan, but also felt like she wasn’t “good enough” for him and never would be. She went on to say that she would not do her “work” to fix it.

“We didn’t mesh and we weren’t compatible in a lot of ways,” she said.

Back at his place, Ethan sat down to write a letter for Olivia, which she asked him to do instead of sharing it with her in person.

“I wrote in my message that I was sorry for all the ways I failed in our relationship that got us to this point and I hope she finds what I couldn’t or didn’t give her,” he revealed. “I wish her the best and I love her and if she needs anything I’ll help her the best I can.”

Ethan Plath signs divorce papers.

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He noted that the letter was “my way of letting her go,” even though he didn’t want to.

“I definitely think I have more happy memories with her than bad memories, but the happy memories are just as painful as what you would consider the bad memories,” he said. “I definitely feel like me and Olivia grew up together. We stepped into the world alone together. We’ve launched it well, but not everything is working.”

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Welcome to Plathville airs Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT on TLC.

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