‘JUST DIDN’T WORK’ Welcome to Plathville’s Olivia Plath splits from husband Ethan after 5 years as star says she’s ‘wiser and braver’
ETHAN and Olivia Plath have said goodbye to each other.
The Welcome to Plathville stars have announced their split, after five years of marriage.
Olivia made the announcement on Instagram.
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“Ethan and I have decided to go our separate ways,” the 25-year-old shared in a written statement.
“I have ambivalent memories of us being 18 years old, innocently dreaming of forever.”
However, she went on to hint that their relationship was forged when she was younger and more naive.
“But the partner you choose is a reflection of the world you want to live in, and at 18 I didn’t know who I was or what kind of life I wanted to create for myself.”
Olivia admitted that more than seven years into their total relationship, she began to have her doubts.
“I’ve already begun my journey of questioning, deconstructing and rebuilding and know that is a process I will continue to prioritize throughout my life.”
Without divulging exactly what led her to calling it quits, she did admits there were good times, and Olivia said she wants to “remember and honor” those.
“We fell in love as children and are going our separate ways as adults. Wiser, older and braver. We will be OK.”
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The couple ended up reuniting after their brief relationship hiatus, and expressed their renewed love publicly. “When high school sweethearts find each other there isn’t much that can separate us,” Ethan wrote in an Instagram post in September 2022.
In this week’s episode, Olivia looked back on their trial separation. “I don’t think of it as like independent or free or single or figuring life out on my own at all,” she says. “I just remember intense pain, but my mindset was this is going to have to work out. But I think I’m in a very different place in my life, and I think I would feel very different today.”
She adds: “The more I deconstruct all the beliefs around marriage that I was taught growing up, the more I feel kind of confused about what should I expect out of a relationship?”
Ethan and Olivia have previously disagreed on a handful of topics throughout their marriage — including everything from Ethan’s love of buying cars, to the dynamics of his reality TV family.
In this week’s episode, Olivia also admitted to her sister, Lydia Grace Meggs, that she questioned on her wedding day if she’d regret being married to Ethan, “but, to be honest, it was mostly because of his family.”
Fans began to speculate that Ethan and Olivia may have split sometime in early 2023 due to the lack of presence on each other’s social media. The last time Olivia shared a post with Ethan on Instagram was in November 2022, though it appears to have been deleted, and his last ode to his wife was on Jan. 8.
Most notably, Ethan reunited with his siblings — after estrangement from his parents — in March, while on a road trip to bring his classic cars from Florida to Minnesota. Olivia did not appear to be on the trip.